Questions to Ponder about Educational Blogging

1. Ask your students: "What's the point of writing?" So often we ask our students to write and our students don't recognize if, how, or why writing is important.

2. What's the point of thinking before writing? What does it mean to think?

3. Does writing have advantages over speaking? If so, what are these advantages?

4. What does it mean to write for an audience? Is it possible for students to write for authentic purposes if teachers always give them the topic to write about?

5. What's the difference between writing on paper and blogging? Should there be any stylistic differences. Why?

I think it's imperative for our students to be involved in answering these kinds of questions so that they can play an active role in their own learning.