The Joy of Blogging

Here is a link if you would like to check out this article.....
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/The-Joy-of-Blogging.aspx

I found this article very interesting and thought it was a great idea to have students start a blog at a young age. I think the collaboaration aspect of blogging and receiving comments really accelerates their learning. Having retired teachers and university students comment on these blogs and posts really made it meaningful in my opinion. Most learning is going to be done through another sources' knowledge and experience so I thought it was really cool that these 5th graders were learning from teachers and students all over the world. My only concern would be students relying too much on technology to relate to the world, we already have major social and fitness problems in this country with kids and its no coincidence that their abundant use of myspace, facebook, blogs, etc. contributes to these problems. A key thing I would do as a teacher is to encourage them to only use these social networks in moderation.