I have been interested to read David Warlick’s latest blog on the use of blogging as research safe material for teachers and students. I started my website for this exact purpose. I wanted a place that I could start to collect ideas and thoughts for my interests and formal studies in the area of Educational Technology. We learn so much from others experiences. I appreciate the chance to engage in the learning process with much more expereinced educators who have been around education longer than I have been on the planet!!
How much more effective could our students learning be if we simply allowed them to engage in similar learning. It is working for me and I can see this working for students!! Imagine a class participating in blogs with those who have had real life experience in an area of study…. My class are studying our country’s system of government this term. How incredible would it be if we could have our local member of parliament blogging about his experiences each week. Discussing the processes that he is going through each day during sittings of parliament!! He/She would engage the students in a realtime and real life learning process that I am sure would contain the learning of content that is required by our curriculum. hmmm just some thoughts for next time we teach this unit of work….
Comments thoughts?!?!?!
Cheers,
Brett