@DeputyMitchell. An Introduction to Blogging with Students. There are clear benefits for students, teachers and schools who use social media.
Blogging gives students a voice and an audience. Teachers can showcase and provide a context for the work and activity in their classrooms and parents and carers can become engaged in the children's learning. There are many free and paid for blogging tools. Here we will look at Wordpress.com which offers a free service, is easy to use and provides the teacher with useful administrator tools. Brilliant Blogger of the Week: Anthony Evans. Team Blogging with WordPress App. Social Media as a teaching tool: How to Tweet your students some knowledge. As teachers, the pull of social media on your students attention will already be well known to you.
The online world exerts a magnetic lure on the attention of young people today, offering community and information sharing, entertainment and gossip in ways that often pull students away from the blackboard. Understanding this dynamic, some educators are now bringing social media into the classroom in surprising ways. By working with something your students already enjoy and don’t, perhaps, associate with learning, there are opportunities for creative teaching, as well as making genuine connection with your students. Facilitating Creative Uses of Technology. The Importance of Blogging – iPad in Education. Blogging is important for educators.
It allows for reflection, stimulates opinion and provokes debate. This blog only began as a colleague suggested it would be a suitable way to record thoughts on an iPad project in school. Heathfield Primary School.