Internet workshop and blog publishing: Meeting student (and teacher) learning needs to achieve best practice in the century social studies classroom.

I enjoyed this article about how technology in the classroom, implemented by the teacher can enhance higher order thinking skills in their students.  Classroom blogs are great and I am creating a blog for my cooperating 5^th grade teacher at Davenport Elementary.  Technology is essential and vital in the classroom because it is a tool to help students become creative and more aware of their writing because it will be “published” online for many people to read.  The classroom blog can be used for many subjects for the teacher to post homework, class discussions, comments, personal writings and parental communication.  I like the suggestion that the classroom teacher is the “controller” of the blog.  The teacher posting child friendly websites for the students to view and do research on is essential because a student could waste valuable time by not having to find quality, reliable websites to do research on.  Students would enjoy being able to use technology in the classroom because this is a different way to introduce their work that they want to share with other students in their class.  The digital storyteller is an amazing tool to encourage students to introduce themselves to others in a way which they have fun and can be creative.

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