Why Choose Blogs?
According to Nielsen Online Ratings, annualised average for 2012 and2013 (figure 1), Blogger is the fourth most used social media for fourteen to
seventeen year old Australians. As students progress through high school, the
probability that they have created a personal blog increases. Although a
personal blog can allow more freedom than an educational blog, it is the key
skills and ideas behind blogging that will be carried with the user.
It is a platform they are used to associating social skills with. Their frequent use of these digital medias suggest they enjoy the social aspects linked to them.
They are familiar with seeking followers with like minded interests. Like other forms of social media, blogging allows you to follow others and gain followers. It is like the modern day popularity scale.
They know the importance behind a comment and how to respond to it.
I feel that blogging is the ultimate mix of social media, which students use on a daily basis, and a learning tool. I believe it is this popularity it has with the younger generation that will make in an effective medium in the classroom.
What Technical Aspects are Involved?
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What Learning Outcomes are Facilitated?
Boasts collaboration between students
§ Learn to act on feedback.
§ Formulate constructive feedback.
§ Communicate with students in a supportive way.
Appeals to different learning styles
§ Visual, auditory and kinesthetic.
§ Students can learn how they learn best.
Promotes personalised, individual learning
§ Students learn how to utilise their learning style.
§ Students make learning their own.
How do Blogs Fit Into My Pedagogy?
Using my pedagogy framework from week 2, I have investigated how blogs could be implemented with each pedagogy. If you missed my pedagogy framework,
Click Here for a refresher.
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How can Blogs Fit Into SAMR?
In my reflection of blogs this week (Week 3 Embedded Task: Blogs), I touched on how blogs could be used in a general setting with SAMR. For this assessment I wanted to analyse how blogs could be implemented in my discipline area.
Scenario: A year 11 Mathematics class are beginning to learn about 3D
Trigonometry.
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WOW! Great use of diagrams and pictures! You have provided such detail.
ReplyDeleteThe use of diagrams and pictures makes your blog very easy to read and you make some very interesting points. What site are you using to create your diagrams if you don't mind me asking?
ReplyDeleteThanks, I don't like writing lots so diagrams always help break it up. I use Draw i.o Pro. Then you can embed the code into your blog.
DeleteNice work the use of diagrams and images makes your blog posting easy to follow and shows the main points you are stating very clear.
ReplyDeleteHi Jess,
ReplyDeleteI'm also very impressed with your use of images and diagrams, its obviously a learning style that appeals to you. Personally I'm a text based person myself, but I realise many of my students won't be so I was wondering if you had come across any Math/Science teaching aids/styles or approaches that had really worked well with your visual learning style?
I've addressed some ways to incorporate visual tools in my embedded assessment for week 4, have a look and let me know if you can help me build on them.
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