Reflection Essay # 6

The benefits of blogging are endless to 21th century learners. Blogs allow learning to extend beyond the classroom. This is extremley important since the internet has made the world very small. Blogging allows for contibutions from readers and fellow students from around the world.
It enhances the concept of a global community and teaches students the direct benefits of collaboration. Blogging teaches skills that students will need to be successfull in today's global economy. Blogging can be used to provide collaborative learning between students and classes in the same school, between students and classes in different schools and states, and between students and classes at schools in different countries.
Blogging is a direct benefit to the social studies education of students. It allows students to instantly find out what is happening in other countries. It allows students to learn about the culture and values of students in other countries or other parts of our own country. But most, importantly, blogging allows for the exchange of information and ideas and thus the evolving of collaborative works and our global society.