"In order to integrate technologies effectively, you must choose the tool that fits the use" (Wilber 43). This seems to be the main purpose of chapter three as well as chapter four as Wilber explains what blogs, wikis, and digital stories are as well as how to use them.
I am still fairly new to blogs and wikis yet, but luckily I'm gaining some experience with them before I start my student teaching next semester. Wilber gives so many different perks to blogs and wikis, and digital stories. He explains how blogs can be used as resources to share ideas with other teachers or as a teaching tool in the classroom in which students are actually blogging. Blogs can be used as book discussions and a way to post questions and connect outside of the classroom.
However, the main point that Wilber points out that I LOVE is that through blogging or more specifically, individual blogging, students are writing on daily basis. One of the problems we discussed in class was how statistics about students reading and writing has declined. Is it really that students don't read or write as much or has the way they read and write just expanded? Blogging I believe will help students to become stronger writers or at least become more aware of what they are writing and it shows them that they do read and write on a daily basis.
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