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Tool literacy and Blogging Infographic
The first page or section of the infographic is segmented to show blogging as a technology literacy tool. Blogging is a great technological tool for teaching digital literacy, being organized, collaboration, and enhance critical thinking skills. Although there are many different platforms for safe student blogging, I am most familiar with kigblog.org, therefore chose that specific platform to teach digital citizenship as an example for the section. Blogging is a terrific tool to teach positive citizenship online. We are social creatures, especially our young. Providing students with the tools to be digitally social in a safe environment is perfect for teaching appropriate social interactive skills.
Next is the Digital Organization segment. As teachers and students continue blogging it becomes a storage area for assignments, topics, and peer comments. Students and can refer back to this and retrieve information. hey found that the majority of students reported that developing an e-portfolio helped to build their overall technical skills and confidence using technology although their perceptions regarding the impact of the e-portfolio development process on the other two outcomes were fairly neutral (Ellison, N. B., & Wu, Y., 2008).
Blogging for Collaboration is next and as a digital tool, teachers can use blogs for peer learning and collaboration. Students can read their peers writings and underline spelling and grammatical mistakes. By sharing their entries with each other, students developed collaboration skills, individual voices, and responsibility for their writing (Roy, 2016). Collaboration is a what is needed in careers today-people who can work independently and collaborate well within a group of their colleagues. Learning to contribute efficiently is important to learn.
Blogging as a tech tool can enhance critical thinking skills. Ask students to post their answers on the blog then discuss the solutions with the whole class at the end of the week. This will tremendously improve their problem-solving skills.
Last blogging as a digital literacy tool helps literacy.Writing and reading online, through blogs can boost student motivation for writing and help students learn to adapt writing for different audiences, tasks, purposes, and disciplines.The use of blogs increased the students’ engagement and interest in reading and writing experiences. The online forum served as a window into their thinking, which enabled pre service teachers to better individualize instruction (Stover, K., Yearta, L. S., & Sease, R., 2014).
On the second page of the infographic there is a table created to help teachers choose which blogging platform would work best for their classroom. Along the top of the table are what google considered to be the top five education blogging sites. The sites are Blogger, WordPress.com, Edublogs.org, Kidblog.org, and WordPress.org. Along the right hand column are attributes the blogging sites may or may not have that would be of interest to the educator. These questions are: Is technical knowledge required for students?, Can teachers manage student accounts?, Can the site be made private?, Does the site support embedding media from 3rd parties?, Can the teacher custom domain mapping (use your own domain). Using this table educators can decide which user friendly site is best for their classroom.
The last item on the infographic are activities for students who are blogging. These activities are collaborative novel study, brain teasers, video tutorials, write a review, write an autobiography, and create rules for digital citizenship. There are an unlimited amount of activities for students online. Using Blogging for Tool Literacy to Teach Reading, Writing, Digital Citizenship, Collaborative Skills, Critical Thinking Skills, and much more is how we will create students who are truly college and career ready.
Tool literacy and Blogging Infographic
The first page or section of the infographic is segmented to show blogging as a technology literacy tool. Blogging is a great technological tool for teaching digital literacy, being organized, collaboration, and enhance critical thinking skills. Although there are many different platforms for safe student blogging, I am most familiar with kigblog.org, therefore chose that specific platform to teach digital citizenship as an example for the section. Blogging is a terrific tool to teach positive citizenship online. We are social creatures, especially our young. Providing students with the tools to be digitally social in a safe environment is perfect for teaching appropriate social interactive skills.
Next is the Digital Organization segment. As teachers and students continue blogging it becomes a storage area for assignments, topics, and peer comments. Students and can refer back to this and retrieve information. hey found that the majority of students reported that developing an e-portfolio helped to build their overall technical skills and confidence using technology although their perceptions regarding the impact of the e-portfolio development process on the other two outcomes were fairly neutral (Ellison, N. B., & Wu, Y., 2008).
Blogging for Collaboration is next and as a digital tool, teachers can use blogs for peer learning and collaboration. Students can read their peers writings and underline spelling and grammatical mistakes. By sharing their entries with each other, students developed collaboration skills, individual voices, and responsibility for their writing (Roy, 2016). Collaboration is a what is needed in careers today-people who can work independently and collaborate well within a group of their colleagues. Learning to contribute efficiently is important to learn.
Blogging as a tech tool can enhance critical thinking skills. Ask students to post their answers on the blog then discuss the solutions with the whole class at the end of the week. This will tremendously improve their problem-solving skills.
Last blogging as a digital literacy tool helps literacy.Writing and reading online, through blogs can boost student motivation for writing and help students learn to adapt writing for different audiences, tasks, purposes, and disciplines.The use of blogs increased the students’ engagement and interest in reading and writing experiences. The online forum served as a window into their thinking, which enabled pre service teachers to better individualize instruction (Stover, K., Yearta, L. S., & Sease, R., 2014).
On the second page of the infographic there is a table created to help teachers choose which blogging platform would work best for their classroom. Along the top of the table are what google considered to be the top five education blogging sites. The sites are Blogger, WordPress.com, Edublogs.org, Kidblog.org, and WordPress.org. Along the right hand column are attributes the blogging sites may or may not have that would be of interest to the educator. These questions are: Is technical knowledge required for students?, Can teachers manage student accounts?, Can the site be made private?, Does the site support embedding media from 3rd parties?, Can the teacher custom domain mapping (use your own domain). Using this table educators can decide which user friendly site is best for their classroom.
The last item on the infographic are activities for students who are blogging. These activities are collaborative novel study, brain teasers, video tutorials, write a review, write an autobiography, and create rules for digital citizenship. There are an unlimited amount of activities for students online. Using Blogging for Tool Literacy to Teach Reading, Writing, Digital Citizenship, Collaborative Skills, Critical Thinking Skills, and much more is how we will create students who are truly college and career ready.