Article: Peer Communication Through Blogging by Steven D. Wall and Janice Anderson
- Problem:
Educating students in the 21st century has imposed a change in the way in which teachers interact with students in the classroom. With the increase of mobile technology, it is changing the way teachers are using social media for example using blogs in their classroom during the school year. These new changes provide challenges and opportunities for teachers.
- Solution:
A research study was conducted on three students who consistently post comments on each other’s blog. Investigating their posts and comments open the eyes of teacher’s expectations for science teaching roles and how teachers applied their expectations when commenting on their peers
- Purpose of the study:
Science teachers approach to teaching did not include networked communication like blogging. The way teachers used to interact with the students after a lesson was that they would talk privately to the students.Through blogging teachers start a discussion and receive responses through the reflections and comments of others. These are new opportunities for teachers but lack the interaction.
- Results and Conclusions:
The results revealed that by blogging with one another the interpersonal relationships did not change the type of interactions that occurred. The study considered any interaction to be an extension of academic learning outside and inside of the classroom.
https://www.citejournal.org/volume-15/issue-4-15/science/peer-communication-through-blogging/
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