Blogging as a part of the curriculum for 5th graders

A local school in Tennessee has added blogging to the 5th grade curriculum according to the Rogersville Review. This is the latest uses of technology in the classroom to teach writing skills. There are some potential issues with kids posting information about them on the internet but I am sure that the teacher has figured out how to get around that.

“Blogging” has joined reading, writing and arithmetic on the curriculum at Rogersville City School. According to RCS fifth grade instructor Jennifer Ewing, students in her class are using web logs, known as blogs, to sharpen their writing skills. (Rogersville Review)

At Tuesday’s meeting of the city school board Ewing also said she and Julia Geiger, a fifth grade teacher at Hawkins Elementary School, are using the blog to allow the students in each class to become “virtual pen pals.” (Rogersville Review)

“When students are first learning how to write in the early grades they are usually excited about it. By the time they reach the middle grades it becomes something they have to do,” Ewing said. (Rogersville Review)

These have been a few simple thoughts of my complex mind.