Summary Writing 3

LITERACY EDUCATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE:

USING BLOGGING TO TEACH WRITING 

        

          This study shows that digital technologies such as blogs and social media have an important role in improving literacy skills in primary classroom especially writing skills. Blog has also succeeded in producing a series of lessons to produce English syllabus writing outcomes. The use of blogs gives students the means to develop skills literacy skills and interact with each other (BOS, 2007). The collaborative nature of blogging that involves the interaction of students with each other and the wider community from each post and commenting on each other is very influential in improving critical literacy skills.

        In addition to the development of traditional literacy skills concerned primarily with the ability to construct "well structured and well presented" (BOS, 2007, p37) texts, students demonstrate the ability to produce multimodal texts, including discourses of language that arerelated tp their media. Therefore, the results of this study support the movement towards a literacy education model that is reflective of a multimodal environment (Walsh, 2008, 2009).

Summary Writing 2

Blogging as a Tool for Intercultural Learning in a Telecollaborative Study

                   Blog writing is a tool that can be used to analyze participants’ intercultural learning.  

We can share, comment and give suggestion through blogs. We can also add knowledge from 

reading blogs.

                    Here is an explanation of what can be in a blog post evidence of intercultural

 attitudes, knowledge, skills, and critical awareness (Byram, 1997) that can be connected in blog

 posts.According to ICC Byram (1997) model, current research explores intercultural learning in 

telecollaborative projects are:

1.       People have good and bad feelings, also have a sense of curiosity and attitude to solve

        problems or justify misunderstandings (Byram, 1997).

2.       A  person's knowledge or  thought is derived from experience in life, but that can

        change  because of interaction with others in daily life.

3 & 4. Interpretation and discovery skills may be a more advanced intercultural learning  level . 

       They not only receive surface level knowledge. Instead, they try to interpret or 

        seek a deeper understanding.

    5.    One's consciousness arises from relationships with others, as they have point of view 

            then that can change after they interact with others which allows that point of view

            to be called critical awareness.

                    From the findings ,it concludes that by using blogs students can exchange ideas about their 

culture  so that students have a wider knowledge in intercultural learning.