Blogs have been used in educational
settings in a number of different ways and have many positive effects for
learning and teaching.
Blogs , espcially , educational blogs “E-
blogs” were created for students and
teachers alike and are growing in popularity
and they provide many advantages not only for
students but also for teachers. Educational
blogs are used to allow educators to interact with students from any location.
Shared ideas by teachers through blogs is a
promising way to communicate teaching opinions and allows multicultural
teaching methods to be disseminated. The blogs that tell the educator how to
use technology within the classroom are informative as many teachers would have
no idea about such teaching methods. Some of the advantages
of this kind of blogs are :
• Openly discuss educational issues,
particularly related to learning technology
• Allow individual
bloggers the opportunity to share their posts with an audience beyond their own blog
• Share discoveries, resources,
accomplishments, excitement and areas of interest
• Present ideas for integration of learning
technology into the curriculum
• Provide technical assistance to other
teachers and trainee practitioners
•
Promote Critical and analytical thinking
•
Promote Creative, Intuitive and Associational thinking
•
Promote Analogical thinking
•
Potential for increased access and exposure to quality information
•
Combination of solitary and social interaction.
In
conclusion, we live in a world that almost nothing can be done without using
computer and blogs are one of the most important tools in education for both
students and teachers
References :
http://www.scis.ulster.ac.uk/~kevin/Elixir-blogs.pdf
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