How can you incorporate blogging (responding to posts and comments on others' posts) into the learning process to help students refine their thinking through writing?
Monday, June 14, 2010
Using Blogs
The National Council of Teachers of English recognizes the importance of teaching writing skills across the curriculum, stating, “The twenty-first century demands that literate people possess a wide range of writing skills and varying approaches to writing tasks . . . addressing multiple audiences for a variety of purposes” (NCTE, 2008). (WriteCycle and 21st Century Skills turnitin.com Page 6 of 12 ) AND Writing is one of the most effective ways to develop thinking. ("Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think," Syrene Forsmanp. 162http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/pop4a.cfm)
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I think that I can incorporate this into the writing process for students. They can read each other's work via a blog and then offer a post on the writing (constructive commentary only). I would give them prompts to guide their thinking about how to comment on the piece. I would want to continue to have students reflect on aspects of their learning and comment on that via the blog as well. They could reflect on their learning at the end of each unit and also refer back to previous blogs in order to discern comments between skills and discuss how they are learning more and more.
ReplyDeleteI think I can often use blogging to have students respond to literature in the classroom. These responses can be very open at times, or very narrow & directed by me at other times. They can also "voice" questions, comments and opinions after participating in a social studies discussion or after reading a non-fiction passage. THey can also use this quiet form of communication in advisory periods. Blogging can be an exit ticket in a math class, though I doubt time would permit that very often.
ReplyDeleteIn my Character and Choice elective, I've used a class blog to have students develop critical reviews of existential films. The blog gives them a chance to share their work in a public forum. It prompts them to think about film in an analytical way, and to hold themselves to a scholarly standard. This latter point is one of the advantages of blogging: at its best, it forces students to put their views out there while requiring them to consider rhetoric, bias, diction, etc.
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