Choosing grades how effective is blogging as a learning tool?

Choosing grades how effective is blogging as a learning tool?

Blogging is a part of many people’s daily lives. Many people possess these blogging skills already by posting to social media sites, they may not see posting to social media as blogging, but essentially it is the same, it is a way of communicating with others over the internet.

Blogging increases student interaction with the materials presented in the course.  Professors assign readings that they ultimately have no control whether the student chooses to read the material or not. Blogging assignments that are required give the students more incentive to get involved and interact and to learn about the subject or topic that is required to be written about.  “As a professor, you have an idea of what the students are thinking before they get to class and the assurance that they have been thinking about the material. That information can help you lead a stronger classroom discussion, one that you know students will take interest in since they helped influence its focus.”

Blogging “as a tool whose use has spread rapidly in the last decade, owing to its advantages of easy-to-use interface and financial feasibility, blogs have great potential to become an effective digital learning tool in both formal and informal learning.”  The learning method of blogging has been showing up around the nation as a learning tool. Blogging has many beneficial aspects that it can contribute to the class room, one for instance being improvement on writing skills. Mark Rom Professor at Georgetown University describes his classroom environment when changing his curriculum to a blogging course, “Mark Rom turned to a course blog to help stimulate class discussion and personal interaction among students. Because class discussion can be intimidating in such a large course, Rom decided to integrate a course blog into his curriculum in order to ensure that all students had the opportunity to engage in meaningful discussion about American politics.”

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