21st Century Learning and Teaching

This year, I admitted a hard truth to myself. I wasn't having my students write enough. In an attempt to follow Kelly Gallagher’s advice that students should write more than we can assess, I decided

Check also:

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/practice/

- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/what-you-should-know-about-blogging/

-  http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/practice-using-blogs-for-home-work-to-get-ict-skills-and-creativity/

- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/ideas-for-valuable-homework-practice/

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/how-to-prepare-for-giving-a-good-course/

- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/is-your-professional-development-up-to-date/

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cambodia4kidsorg As a school division, we are deep into developing blogs as portfolios with our students.  To do this with approximately 10,000 students is...

Why would I start educational blogging with my students ? what is its benefits on their overall learning ? These are two legitimate questions you need to ponder on before embarking on a blogging journey with your class. In fact asking critical questions should not only be limited to your tech practices with your students but should cover all your teaching practice. Through questions we discover our weak points to work on and through inquiry we unearth new inspiring fountains of knowledge.

To answer the two questions posed above, I am sharing with you what Morris ( grade four teacher ) has learned from using educational blogging with her students. Morris was like everyone of us, hesitant and not sure how to start blogging with her class but now that she spent several years blogging she discovered that blogging brings several educational benefits and here are some of them : read more in the article...