Hello everyone:
Thinking in what advantages teachers and students have using a blog, I decide to write about an important and specific point "motivation". When people start to work in a blog , different ideas come to their minds to create something different from others .The use of this tool make people amazing , ingenious , and active. Richardson(2009) wrote "Blogs can be a powerful promoter of creative , intuitive, and associational thinking ". Students developed intellectual abilities that make them more analytic .For that reason, teachers can use blogs to reinforce contents in the classroom and outside it ,and stimulate workteam. Usually, students who work with a blog increase their skills in reading to process,understand, and analyse contents in easy way. Using technology appropriate to this era , students have more probability to feel motivation about school activities and all knowledge that teacher wants to teach.Motivation is not only fundamental to have success in a classroom, it is essential to make good connection between home and school activities . In this form , students can administer their time having fun ,but also acquire knowledge.
References:
Richardson, Will.(2009). Blog, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for a Classrooms. Thousand Oaks, Ca. Corwin Press .20
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Ruben, are you planning to encourage your students to blog entirely in Spanish? That could definitely encourage students to learn new vocabulary. What will you do if they want to express ideas that are well beyond what they have learned? And will you try to get some opportunities to blog with people in Spanish-speaking countries?
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Rubin,
ReplyDeleteIf we have learned anything from the readings assigned in our Walden class for the past two weeks, it is certainly the need to embrace different cultures and people from around the world. Only in this manner will workers in the US remain vital in a global economy. I am so excited to see teachers like you looking at how to expand student's language skills (and thereby cultural knowledge) by using the skills set out in the report put out by the "Partnership for 21st Century Skills" (P21). As the authors say on page 9, “…in a global economy, a foreign language, economics and geography are ‘new basics’ for functioning effectively” (Partnership for 21st Century Skills).
Having a high school son who is looking forward to his fifth year of German, I can see how important any language skills are in our changing world. What better way for students to really learn than from interaction with native speakers over the internet? It also has the added benefit of building a sense of community across geographic distance. This kind of innovative teaching would go a long way towards bringing our students into that “21st Century context” that the report describes on page 12 of the same report (Partnership et all) Authentic learning experiences in a learning environments that they enjoy are the cornerstones for helping students to survive and prosper.
I also thought it was interesting how you brought up the idea of the language translators that can accompany many internet and software applications. I wasn’t sure if a language teacher would be for them or against them, but I can see where they might allow a person who struggles with the basic grammar and spelling to feel more success. I assume it would still expect basic knowledge of the language, just as the spell-check in Microsoft Word does on an English paper. Thank you for your insight.
References:
Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Learning for the 21st Century: A report and mile guide for 21st century skills
-Dana Smith