The No Child Left Behind law includes a provision requiring that all
eighth-graders be technologically literate by June 2006. Students easily embrace their high tech future, but teachers have the crucial job to guide student tech development in appropriate ways.
We need to prepare our students for their technology-rich and socially literate future by beginning to include appropriate leveled blogging instruction in second-grade classrooms now.
My action research seeks to answer the following questions:
Over the course of 12 weeks of instruction and use, what is the impact of public blogging on second-grade writers in the areas of voice development, enthusiasm, and presentation?
Specifically, does the knowledge that their writing will be viewable by the whole world cause second-grade writers to more carefully choose, edit, develop, and present their writing and does it cause them to be more enthusiastic about writing?
A secondary question to be answered will be: Is blogging in the second-grade classroom a sustainable classroom activity over the course of 12 weeks of writing instruction?
Giving Young Writers an Audience The 12 weeks of my action research project will hopefully bring new enthusiasm for writing to young writers.
School and learning are lifelong experiences that thread throughout human life, and they can be and should be fun and engaging, not toil and drudgery.
