Friday, July 23, 2010
Blogging-Creative expression
One advantage of being able to blogs is the ability to be creatively expressive. Students can use expression and explore emotive language which is essential for human development. Students can express as well, how they feel about the technology they are using. In this way the teacher can gage the students attitude toward the task they are doing and the medium they are using to do it. Teachers can then adjust tasks and select more appropriate technology to meet the needs of the students. The creativity of the student can then be brought out as they will have a space to express themselves in writing. When they read their peers work they can comment on it as well as get valuable reading practice from a medium with which they are comfortable. Web 2.0 offers students the ability to improve their reading and writing fluency through interactive tools which allow them to confidently express themselves in both reading and writing.
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Hi Terrence,
ReplyDeleteI also am sold on blogs as a motivational tool for engaging reluctant readers and writers. Blogs have the potential to promote intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation comes from within. If blogs are designed to give students a sense of autonomy and choice, students will become independent readers and writers. Important to the equation is the need for the student to feel he or she can succeed at the task assigned.
Blogs allow the reading specialist to help each challenged reader by assigning individual task that gave a sense of self-efficacy. As Patrick & Schunk, (cited in Brozo & Flynt 2008) stated "teachers can create the conditions for students that are associated with increased perceptions of competence and, consequently, a willingness to sustain effort to be successful."