K-12

K-12

Using blogs with K-12 students has been successful for many teachers. Andy Carvin interviewed Janice Robertson who is an English teacher in Ontario, and she is very pleased with her results. She stated that she found that by using blogs to interact with her students she has more responses to the assignments that she assigns. Many of her students feel that they have more freedom when responding online than they would during the classroom lectures.
The main course that she uses her blog page for is her reading education class. She has found that students tend to respond more promptly to the reading questions than ever before. Because they are able to review the responses of other students it helps them to express their feelings about a particular novel or reading very easily.
Ms. Robertson considers her blog page to be very successful. One of her main concerns was that the students be able to bypass the filters and log on to her site. She stated that they seemed to be handling the situation rather well.

www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2006/06

There are many teachers who have found that using blogs helps to relay coursework materials. Some have even went as far as using it to help inform students about their health, schedules, assignments, and even news. One teacher, Marcia Musings has using her blog page very interestingly. One of her stories is about how teachers face difficult problems dealing with the handicaps of students. For example, if a student suffers problems with asthma, some teachers might find it difficult to handle a crisis situation. Therefore, her blog page offers teachers education about how to handle students who suffer from similar illnesses. If a teacher is expecting a student who suffers from seizures, she can go to the blog page and gain some form of knowledge about the symptoms of an onset seizure and what she should do.

Also on her website she has links to other sites for parents and students information. I found this site to be really interesting because it was well designed and provided students with links such as, online resources, how to use the internet, games, parents and students and also career opportunities. Students are also able to see the responses of other schools about community news and programs.

http://www.powertolearn.com/

Technology has advanced so much that many students know how to successfully navigate on a computer by the age of 8. Much emphasis has been placed on the well-being of students so that they will be able to access information that they are expected to comprehend. If there is a question about a particular subject matter, students are able to access online information that will help them. This is a very powerful tool to have and I feel that it is needed.

Technology in America is advancing very fast. Before long, the information that we are aware of about computers will not be up-to-date. The information we know now will be basic information for our children. However, it is important that we absorb as much information possible in order to keep in tune of what is going on around us.