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Preparing Teachers For 21st Century Skills: Using Blogs To Support Students In Learning Math And Encourage Teacher-Student-Parent Communications, Paula Jones
Instructional Development Center Faculty and Staff Research
Blogs are used to support future P-12 students in learning math and to encourage student, parent and teacher communication outside of the classroom. In this paper, valuable online resources are identified plus literature is summarized that documents the opportunities that blogging can bring to the educational setting. There is definitely a need for tech support and training to assist pre-service teachers on how to use social media and blogs. Most importantly, the pre-service teachers need support in using social media technology to plan for communications between generations. Educators need access to resources and tech support that will help them to …