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Article: Using blogs in the classroom: a new approach to teaching social studies with the internet.(Surfing the Net)
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- Social Education
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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OK, I admit it. Technology has passed me by. After years of feeling that I was fairly knowledgeable about technology--computers, software, the internet--recent innovations make me feel like an amateur. I had read about teachers using blogs in the classroom, and I vaguely knew what blogs (short for "web logs") and podcasts were. However, I hadn't realized how many educators were actively transforming teaching by changing student-to-teacher, student-to-student, and student-to-information interactions.
I decided to write a column about blogs after reading an article in the October 2005 issue of NEA Today, the journal of the National Education Association. Titled ...