EDWR 5562 - Student Blogging

Course Description

Our students greatly benefit from the chance to practice using digital tools appropriately. This course explores how blogging can foster positive social skills and internet safety, all while presenting student work to an authentic audience -peers! By creating personalized, professional spaces, students exhibit pride in their work and build classroom community. Teach communication and collaboration skills, encourage metacognitive thinking, foster engagement, and breed student ownership over learning via the power of the student blog.

Learner Outcomes

By the end of the course participants will be able to explain:

how blogging can be applied to instruction to meet ISTE Student Standards and prepare students for the future
how blogging fosters student autonomy and principles of constructivist learning
how an authentic audience can improve student writing and thinking
how blogging channels students to reflect on their learning and practice metacognition
how blog commenting engages students in feedback loops with their peers and teachers and builds community in the classroom
how an online presence allows students to authentically practice digital citizenship
how blogging can be applied to their own teaching context, to include standards, technology tools, assessment practices and challenges