Tricked Into Learning

I was just wondering, How would I apply blogging to teaching?

     I feel like as a future teacher, I would love to incorporate blogging (or any form of a sharing website) in my class. Even though my ultimate goal is to teach elementary school, I know kids are participating on the world wide web. Hello! They are probably playing on Club penguin as I type. I digress. I feel as a teacher we should always encourage our students to now only strive in the subject we are teaching, but to strive in expanding their minds. In the future I will be in charge in shaping young people's minds, so I feel I want to challenge them every week. So I would take a website that encourages my students to interact with any websites I find and then write about their results through our classroom blog. Each week on a Friday I'd post an activity, and then communicate through the blog if they had any questions.

     My main goal is I want them to learn how to use technology to their advantage and how to apply math to everything. I also would want them to learn how to explore on their own and desire to expand their mind outside the classroom.

     Flashback, I remember when I was in middle school and I was in a technology class. This class taught basic computer skills. The teacher had a website where we created student emails that could be monitored by the instructor. I believe the email website was called epals. The class used this email to ask questions to other students, or even socialize before class started. The teacher encouraged us to use this email everyday to not only communicate, but to perfect our typing skills. When I'm a teacher I will encourage my students to set an email up so they can contact me for math help, and this will also prepare them for the world of emails in college. 
Here's the link to the homepage http://www.epals.com/#!/main


I guess as teachers we can either us blogging, emails or whatever communicative website we need to teach our students, outside the classroom. 

I was just wondering if this is an actual possibility, I can see this happening. 

Then again, there could be issues controlling students and keeping the blog academic based. 

The Art of Blogging

     I was assigned in class to create a blog. Luckily, I already had one that I've neglected for a couple of years. I revisited my old friend and made some cosmetic changed to keep it updated. Starting a blog, is not as simple as it seems. Once you find your topic and style then you can begin. The next step in the assignment was to invite people to the blog, that was tricky. It was difficult getting 20+ email addresses and personally inviting them to your blog. The blogging process is influential you realize how many people can read your personal thoughts, and you don't have that much control of who sees this. Yet, the blog can help us all reach out to students and communicate through a media they know very well, a little too well. Back in my day we didn't have them fancy internet connections. If we had a problem we called someone on the phone, not a cell phone, a wall phone (had to include this for humor). 
    
    This assignment made me wonder, why technology has become so influential in our daily lives. Why did we let it go so far? Why do we feel the need to post everything about our lives?
     
    Our lives revolve around the Internet and web-posts. We can't do an activity or enjoy life, unless we post about it first. We feel the need to document everything from, what we eat, where we eat, and who we eat with. It's a little ridiculous. Although I post at least one article on my profile everyday. Through these technologies we have Facebook, Instagram, and even Blog spot.com. Where everyone has the right to post whatever they want, with little to no censorship. The Internet gives everyone the power to voice their opinions. If you choose to accept those opinions as your own, that's up to you. This is a very dangerous power. People are given the ultimate power to post anything, literally anything. For example, I am typing right now what is on my mind. It isn't anything bad, but there is the possibility I'm sharing harmful ideas to young people. Some people read things on the Internet and accept it as the truth. The Internet provides limitless data. That's the problem, the Internet provides all kinds of information at our fingertips. Just wondering if that anyone else thinks like me...

     Luckily, the Internet can be applied to positive aspects  Blogs can provide information and ideas between people so they can learn as the author learns. There are communities of educators built through blogs or Facebook. 

I was just wondering. Does anyone else see that technology is raiding the classroom? 
Maybe it's for the best... or it's supplying ammo for the impending Robot takeover, first the classrooms, then the world.