Why should we use blog for teaching
learning process ?
As we know in this modern era,
technology is increasing day by day, especially in teaching learning process, we
have to make it more advanced. Blog itself has many function, for the good
example is we can post or create an article, current issue, our knowledge, etc. Then, people around the world or our student can search and read our posts in
blog.
Blog provide many advantages to support our teaching learning process. It can help us to show and introduce our writing that we write in our blog. People around the world can see and access our writing easily. Not only for our students, but also students in every school around the world. we are able to educate to thousands of people our life, our learnings, and our thoughts about particular topics of interest in an easy and cost-effective manner. We can create discourse and get feedback on our material instantly which, in turn, helps the “curriculum” advance.
Blog provide many advantages to support our teaching learning process. It can help us to show and introduce our writing that we write in our blog. People around the world can see and access our writing easily. Not only for our students, but also students in every school around the world. we are able to educate to thousands of people our life, our learnings, and our thoughts about particular topics of interest in an easy and cost-effective manner. We can create discourse and get feedback on our material instantly which, in turn, helps the “curriculum” advance.
Although many blogs are personal and individual, some are developed collaboratively (Blogger allows you to create group blogs), with many people able to post to them. So a blog could be a co-creative space for a group of students and their teacher. The teacher can post to the blog as they would to a course website (resources, outlines, assignments...) and students can be tasked with responding to the teacher's resources and activities, keeping a reflective learning journal, and evaluating the work of their peers
Blogging is new territory for most academics, and research of the use of blogs in teaching is scarce. However, many of the elements required in maintaining a blog are the very things that we encourage students to do: keeping a reflective journal, critically assessing external sources, researching a topic, and so on.
In the 21st century, blog get the fame year by year. As of 16 February 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence. On October 13, 2012, there were around 77 million Tumblr and 56.6 million WordPress blogs in existence worldwide. According to critics and other bloggers, Blogger is the most popular blogging service used today (wikipedia). In the Colleges Should Tap the Pedagogical Potential of the World-Wide Web." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 8 Aug. 1999. B8. Fraser, Alistair says "The extent to which a student gains the same pedagogical benefit from a printout of your Web resources as from the resources themselves is the extent to which you have done nothing of pedagogical value using the web."
Here are some of the main reasons why teachers and educaors should consider blogging as an educational medium (Med Kharbach:2012) :
- Students enjoy blogging
- Blogging enhances literacy skills
- Using a blog makes learning independent of time and place
- It gets students engaged and boost their motivation
- It promotes their communication skills
- Just like other asynchronous media, blogs give time to students to reflect
- It makes teaching students oriented
- It emphasizes the " test and learn" and " learning by doing" strategies instead of " plan and execute " ones
- It fosters the learning bonds between teachers and students
- It gives a chance to shy students to participate with their peers and get their voice heard
- It keeps parents updated about their kids progress
- It enhances home-school links
- It gives students a genuine and potentially worldwide audience for their work.
- Blogging gives students ownership over their own learning and an authentic voice allowing them to articulate their needs and inform their learning.
- It contributes to identity-formation in students
- Blogging helps teachers develop professionally
- It fosters the development of writing and research skills as well as digital skills.
- For more reading, please visit med@educatorstechnology.com
