What instructional strategies would fit well using blogs in the classroom? Why?
Blogs allow students to work together through collaboration. They can present their thoughts and findings within their own blogs and branch out to other blogs to comment and discuss among their classmates. If a group of students are working on a project, they can discuss project details within a blog designed specifically for this classroom or this project.
Blogs can also facilitate thoughtful discourse among students and their instructors. Through a verbal (or in this case, written or “typed”) exchange of ideas, students can construct and communicate content-related ideas through reflection on their own part and on the work of other student’s work.
What instructional strategies would not fit well with using blogs in the classroom? Why?
Blogs would work best within a classroom that benefits from reflection and discussion. For example, discussing a piece of literature in an English course or discussing issues in a government course. On the other hand, a math course doesn’t require a lot of discussion unless it is to clarify a step that is usually gone over in lecture. There isn’t much to reflect and ponder when it comes to math.
I agree that blogs work well for reflection and discussion. Is there a way that you could develop a question that could allow reflection in math? Maybe a problem that students need to reflect on the different strategies they could use to solve the problem?
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