Blogs - a “must-have”
eSchool news points us to a great article entitled, “CoSN profiles ‘must-have’ technolgies. One of those must-haves is blogs!
The article states:
“Most schools embracing technology today have primarily focused on its deployment for administrative purposes or for the back office,” said Keith Krueger, CoSN’s chief executive officer, in a statement. “Our hope is that this guide will provide technology leaders with a strategic understanding of technologies that can truly transform their schools over the next three to five years.”
One of the aspects of this report that I like is that they based their list of technologies to include what they believed would not only make a fundamental impact on education, but would be economically and financially feasible enough for schools to implement in the very near future.
Datacasting, radio frequency identification (RDIF) chips, student weblogs (blogs), and intelligent essay graders made their list. Here’s the part about blogs:
Rolfes also touched on the growing importance of comprehensive student information systems used to track and monitor student progress, as well as the use of blogs as an increasingly popular tool for building stronger school communities–spurring much-needed communication among students, parents, and educators.
Hey, I couldn’t agree more with including blogs but I do wish the report had also highlighted the learning possiblilites and how they can be used to challenge our students to use their voices in thoughtful, persuasive ways that can reach way out past just students, parents, and educators.
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