Richardson, K. (2008). Don’t feed the trolls: using blogs to teach civil discourse. Learning and Leading with Technology. 35 (7), 12-15
The use of blogs would be a unique aspect to my classroom. I am anticipating on being a future physical education teacher. Although the use of computers is not as frequent as in other classes there is a way to incorporate blogs and more importantly, netiquette for my students. The new program set up for physical education that is slowly being introduced is called “Sport Education”. Here is a brief background on Sport Education to further understand how blogs can be incorporated:
Sport education is taking units and creating “seasons” instead of short, minimal weeks teaching of the basics to a sport. By extending the time of the unit, students are able to become more involved with the sport itself. One of the new uses of sport education is to provide the students with roles, or responsibilities for that season. Students remain on the same teams for the season. These roles on the teams vary on what responsibilities the teacher wants them to take on. Each team can have an official role of team referee, manager, captain etc.
A role that can be added on in sports education to incorporate computer use, and blogs is a created role of journalist (note that students rotate roles and everyone has a chance to be in each role). The journalist is required to set up a blog for their team. They can write articles about team member’s accomplishments as well as post stats and wins. This is a perfect way to introduce netiquette to students. They have a perfect opportunity to practice proper language to use for the internet. Other students will also be required to comment on the logs, also practicing civil discourse.
With further research, an article was found giving more detail on what is an internet troll. This article not only describes what a troll on the internet is, but theories for their existence, what sort of trouble they can cause, as well as ways to avoid or discourage them.
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Herro Brianna -
ReplyDeleteI didn't think it was possible, but this is a great way to incorporate technology into the physical education setting. I agree that this would be a great way to introduce netiquette to students, and it is a good example of cross-curricular teaching. Thank you for your information about Sports Education, which is quite interesting, because PE has never been one of my fortes. Good job!
~Seara