Teachers and the use of blogs!

I personally do not see my school using blogs, because they are elementary school students. But I do believe that blogs would be a great tool to use in middle and high schools. Teachers could set up blogs to use as collaboration between students on class projects and discussions. Students could focus on the 21st century skills of critical thinking and a higher level of thinking through group participation. The students could expand their creativity levels by engaging in class discussions related to class projects.

If I taught up the upper level grades I could see myself posting a discussion topic on blogger, and seeing where my students went with the topic.  It would be a great way to hold a classroom discussion.  People love to text today, so I do not see why they would not enjoy blogging!

I could use blogs with parents to open another line of communication.  I have many parents who e-mail, and by blogging this could be a way to communicate homework assignments, what took place in subject lessons throughout the day, and upcoming projects that need to be done.