Thursday, March 02, 2006

Blogs and Education

Today I have asked my students all to create a blog to use as a learning journal. I believe by writing in the journal and reflecting on what they are doing they will be able to understand work at a deeper level while retaining more detail.

What am I doing? This is grumpy old computer teachers and I am being positive and not grumpy. I suppose I can be grumpy against people who are so overly protective of students confidentiality they seem to think anything they do on the web is dangerous and so they create a stilted world where nothing progresses and everyone is protected in cotton wool. No fun. No sport. No anything because everything is dangerous and everyone could be hurt.

Fiddlesticks. I could use much stronger language but I really don't think it would be appropriate for my students.

What I say is embrace the new possibilities just make people aware of the dangers so that they can look after themselves and not be caught unawares.

There are too many possibilities not to embrace.

So I am hopeful that my students will learn a great deal from this actvity.