How Can Blogs Be Used In Education?

Blogs can be used as an educational tool in classrooms of all levels. As this future educator plans to teach at the elementary level, this blog post will focus on using blogs to communicate with parents, and encourage elementary students.

It is often difficult for working parents to communicate with their children’s teachers. A blog provides the opportunity for teachers to post information that parents need to help their student succeed. Information such as assignments and due dates are readily available to parents. Additionally, if a parent has questions about an assignment, it is easy to communicate through the blog, ask questions, get clarification, or get ideas as to how to help their child.

Furthermore, teachers can post student’s work on the blog. This helps to motivate students to produce quality work as it may be viewed by others. Posting completed work also provides a forum for students to comment on the work of others, either giving praise, or presenting ideas to improve the quality of work. If students have individual blog pages, the blog can serve as a digital portfolio of the students work and progress.

Additionally, blogs can encourage collaboration between students. In today’s society of households with single parents, or two working parents, it is sometimes difficult for students to work on group projects. However, if an area of a blog is dedicated to discussion of projects, students will not need to physically be in the same location, but can each be on their own computer at home or at day care, and still collaborate on their project.

Blogs are new to this future educator, and I am certain that I will discover many uses for blogs in the future weeks, months, and years while I learn to teach, and progress down my path as an educator of young children.