Aug 1st, 2008
K-3 Teachers Learn Blogging
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It is not enough that we teach blogging to teachers and have them create cool looking blogs. Those of us in Instructional Technology must have a deep understanding of how the students in their classroom learn. I introduced blogging to a group of K-3rd grade teachers in a workshop. Some of the participants looked at me like I had lost my mind. You really think Kindergarten students can blog? Yes, I do. It might look at little different than a 5th Grader blogging at first but they CAN DO IT! My understanding of the reading and writing learning process with kinder and 1st graders helped me to help them start to think of ways are younger students can begin using technology to build their literacy skills . We have to get educators thinking outside the box concerning technology. These digital natives are jumping at a chance to show that they CAN DO it. One example I gave for kinders is to let them podcast their postings in a blog at the start when their literacy skills are in storytelling. Another idea was to have them draw their stories and then take a digital picture to post to the blog. Parent would love to comment on their children’s beginning writing.
How do others view blogging and what it can do for literacy skills?
