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YouTube - 21st Century Classroom - (Part 1 of 2)
An overview of efforts to integrate new technology into the classrooms at the middle and high school levels from a town in southern Maine, USA.
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2¢ Worth » Justifying Blogging
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Blogging has opened up a new and
relevant form of composition in my classroom, one that requires
students to speak knowledgeably and authoritatively for an authentic
audience and one that encourages deeper research through hyper-
linking. Parents love that short blogging assignments keep students
writing regularly, and students not adept at academic essay writing
are finding an original and meaningful voice through blogging. -
I am starting my third year of blogging with fifth graders. I work in an extremely high achieving district on Long Island in NY. The expectations for our students are much higher than the average district. And I cannot say enough positives about blogging.
I have found that blogging has improved their writing abilities tremendously. Having a world-wide audience reading their work makes my students put more effort into their vocabulary use, their editing skills, and their ideas. They have also learned how to better communicate. They have learned how to make positive and constructive comments, while being respectful and considerate of the reader. They have made contacts with other students through blogs, learning how to use html code to improve the look of their site, learning about some online sites to view, learning about new books to read and movies to attend. And their reading skills have improved simply because they are more motivated to read. Many choose to read blogs during their independent reading time.
Now I will also tell you that I like the moderation portion of class blogmeister. (Other blogs have this ability too.) Nothing goes onto my class site without my prior approval..not a blog or a comment or a picture or a video. This assures me, parents, and administrators that no unsafe or unkind practices will take place there.
Good luck!
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21st Century Learning: 9 Principles for Implementation: The Big Shift
Geared to a leadership audience on principles for implementing change.
educational-origami » home
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Educational Origami is a blog, and a wiki,
about the integration of ICT into the classroom, this is one of the largest
challenges that I feel we as teachers face. Marc Prensky coined the now
popular and famous phrase "Digital natives and digital immigrants" in his two papers on
digital Children. We the teachers are the immigrants and our students are the
natives, brought up in a world where there has always been computers and the
internet, where information is always instant and varied.
I made this wiki on
request from Miguel
Guhlin after I blogged about matching ICT tools to
traditional classroom practice and Bloom's Taxonomy.
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