Teachers Are Learners, Too

As I consider providing challenge and motivation for learning for my students, a current strong consideration has become blogging. I have learned at eduational technology conferences, by listening to podcasts, and now by reading blogs a number of educationally sound reasons for using blogging to facilitate learning.

Because she “says” it better than I can, I am providing this link to Anne Davis’ blog that I believe includes a number of excellent reasons to involve students in blogging.

Will Richardson, an internationally respected consultant regarding education blogging, presented at the March NCCE conference I attended. He makes a strong case about blogging providing a prime opportunity for authentic learning for our students. I invite you to visit his blog site to read Teaching Students to Blog.

Since student safety needs to always be a concern, I need to mention that in a recent Alan November podcast in which Alan interviewed Will Richardson, I heard Will express his awareness of specific groups that have been blogging safely for more than four years.