Blogging can be used in alignment with the Quality Teaching framework in a number of ways. It allows students to reflect upon their own work, and identify their own areas of weakness. Students are motivated and engaged to work towards a real purpose.
Blogging can be used throughout most KLAs, providing an method of connecting learners to each other by commenting on posts and facilitating discussion
Blogging is able to transform classrooms such as those at Belmore South into quality learning environments by incorporating the use of computers and blogs in different ways to give students more control over their work, and make it a collaborative experience.
These ideas are explored in the following reading:
Laptops and classroom internet connections have the potential to provide scaffolding for students, even when their work is not centered around digital literacy. The internet can provide background knowledge on a subject and support teacher instruction
Assessment of new (digital) literacies
The reading explores the problems surrounding assessment of new literacies when traditional assessment evaluates traditional, ie. What can students do with new literacties that is not measured by current assumptions
Schools cannot simply purchase digital technology and expect it both to work, and improve student outcomes. Professional support, as well as professional learning for the teachers is required to properly teach digital literacies in an ICT classroom.
These ideas are explored in the following reading:
Barone, D., & Wright, T. E. (2008). Literacy instruction with digital and media technologies. The Reading Teacher, 62(4), 292-302
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