Zawilinski, Lisa. "HOT Blogging: A Framework for Blogging to Promote Higher Order Thinking." The Reading Teacher 62.8 (2009): 650-661. 16 May 2009. (link)
“HOT Blogging:A Framework for Blogging to Promote Higher Order Thinking,” an article by Lisa Zawilinski, discusses “ways in which blogs can support literacy programs, especially to develop higher order thinking (HOT) while reading and writing. Through the use of Edublogs, a free blogging site for educators, teacher Stephanie LeClair (pseudonym) created a blog for her fifth grade students to encourage them to provide written responses to what they had been reading. Initially designed with a format that allowed LeClair to post questions or prompts that her students would respond to using the “comment” feature, the site was eventually expanded to allow students to showcase their own work to family and friends and provided students with their own personal blogs where they were able to post questions about their school reading or share what they had been reading outside of class - all of which could be responded to and commented on by their peers. Providing web addresses to visit to as examples, this article gives a great deal of detail in how various types of blogs can be useful in the classroom and how educators can go about creating blogs of their own.
Lisa Zawilinksi is a doctoral student at the University of Connecticut, studying Curriculum and Instruction, particularly the uses of Internet technology and how it can aid in classroom instruction. Through her research, Zawilinksi has found that “the Internet is this generation’s defining technology for literacy” and that in using the Internet in the classroom, educators can use blogs to introduce “essential new literacies of online reading comprehension [to] emphasize higher order thinking skills like analysis, synthesis and evaluation” (651 and 652). Online reading exposes students to a variety of media, developing their understanding of other texts through the gathering, evaluating and synthesizing of data. In responding to this information through critically written arguments and discussions, students are required to think on levels that will help them reach the standard that will be required of them by the literacy standards of the technology age. A substantial amount of this article’s value lies within the pages that describe precisely how an educator can implement blogging into their curriculum and suggests webpages and blogs that can be visited for further examples, such as:
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