An important tool that could be incorporated in to the classroom lesson plan and education is blogging between teachers and between teachers and students. Students could share their thoughts with other students or teachers using tools that they already use in their lives outside the classroom. Blogging might help shy or embarrassed students to ask questions of other students or their teachers. This would allow those students to ask a question or give an answer outside the classroom. You can only tell students so many times that there are no bad questions, just bad answers. Perhaps students and teachers, relating with each other in this new way could use this new perspective as a way to continue their conversations.
By utilizing blogs, teachers could also share ideas or lesson plans with each other. Finding out what works in a lesson plan quickly and what relevant questions students are asking could also help teachers to better direct the lesson plan and better facilitate cooperative learning between students. Blogs might also help teachers to better reflect on their own teaching as reflection helps make change in the classroom and the world possible.
While I do feel that blogging can be a useful tool in the classroom and the implementation of the lesson plan, I am a not certain administrators, principals or school boards would accept that blogging is an appropriate tool. Disadvantages might include those in charge not having absolute control over given circumstances as inappropriate content material that is not language or age appropriate is easily obtained and finding a way around Internet screens and filters set up in the schools is possible. Blogging and the Internet have come of age in today’s society but perhaps not in the K -12 classrooms, yet!
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