I have thought a lot about the power of blogging in the past year. I have friends that faithfully blog on a weekly basis and just as faithfully you'll find me reading their updates. Web logging has certainly become a convenient way for me to "read all about it" concerning the personal lives of friends and family. So, if it has that kind of impact on my relationships with near kin and friends, what kind of an impact could it have in education?
I read a couple of articles (Fernando 2008 and Caverly 2008) today about the powerful use of Web 2.0 tools like Youtube, Second Life, Twitter, Innertoob, podcasting, wiki's and web logging. One point that Fernando made in his article was that in terms of e-learning education has "gotten into the business of teaching new media, using new media." Caverly discovered that teachers started figuring out "what interested, confused, and concerned [their] students" using blogs. If that is the case then teachers need to expect technology to play a greater role in rescuing their students from past dated instructional methods and helping them (and us) accept the evolution of technology and the learning sciences in the classroom now and in the future.
Even in my own career field as a seminary teacher, I have noticed more and more that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is using www.Youtube.com more frequently for the sole purpose of posting inspirational messages.
Therefore, we can either choose to go along for the supercompter ride, or be left in the dust.
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