Latest Web Marks 12/04/2009

• Study: Children Who Blog Or Use Facebook Have Higher Literacy Levels

  A research by The National Literacy Trust on 3,001 children from England and Scotland showed that schoolchildren who blog or own social networking profiles on Facebook have higher literacy levels and greater confidence in writing.

  tags: blogging, social-network, literacy

  • mong the key findings were that 56 per cent of young people said they had a profile on a social networking site such as Facebook or Bebo, while 24 per cent said they had their own blog. The study also found that 49 per cent of young people believe writing is “boring”. However, 57 per cent of those who used text-based web applications such as blogs, said they generally enjoyed writing compared to 40 per cent who did not.

    Those who had a blog or profile on a social networking site (SNS) also appeared to be more confident in their writing ability: 61 per cent of bloggers and 56 per cent of social networkers claimed to be good or very good at writing, compared to 47 per cent of those who had neither.

  • “Confidence and enjoyment are closely linked to the development of skills. Therefore, in order to improve standards we need to encourage children to write more and to enjoy writing, which could be supported by celebrating forms of writing they enjoy. Our research indicates that, for many, these are without doubt technology-based forms.”

• 50 Web Applications for Teachers

  Nothing really to say….just start clicking!

  tags: Education, web2.0

• Weblogg-ed » I Don’t Need Your Network (or Your Computer, or Your Tech Plan, or Your…)

  The problem is, and I can guarantee you this, 95% of the curriculum currently being delivered in those classrooms would waste 95% of the potential in the room that we could glean from that access.

  tags: willrichardson, Education, curriculum, 1:1, change

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