Yay or Nay - Blogs in Schools

For this engagement activity, we were required to firstly construct a Positive, Minus and Interesting (PMI) chart on the topic of involving blogs into schools.  Using this scaffold, I was able to come up with a few reasons as to how blogs could affect learning in the classroom.

Positive	Minus	Interesting
·      Students are able to find information ·      Functionality of sites are easy to navigate ·      Connectivism	·      Distracting ·      Taking focus from learning ·      Hard to filter what information students may see ·      Have to set aside time to teach students ‘netiquette’	·      Students like technology, so it could prove to be engaging ·      Myriad of resources and learning interests

Though there are only a few statements there, it can be seen that there are always going to be accepting and opposing arguments.  From a personal standpoint, I think that as long as students were taught appropriate rules and regulations about blogs – as with any ICT tool, they could make another interesting tool to the classroom.