Does Social Bookmarking have an application in your classroom? What are some ways it could benefit you and your students? Can it help you now as a student...how?
Social Bookmarking will have a strong application in my future classroom. As a teacher social bookmarking can benefit me in many ways. I will be able to save websites that are good resources, share them with other teachers, and also look at other teachers social bookmarking sites to find good ideas. Having a social bookmarking site will help to organize my classroom and also help to find resources efficiently by using the tagging tool.
My students will benefit from social bookmarking in many ways. Students will be able to bookmark sites if they are doing a research project, by using this tool students will learn how to find reliable resources that they can uses for current and future projects. This is an important skill because if students do not know how to distinguish a reliable internet source from an unreliable one they will have incorrect information, and will not be able to use technology to their advantage. Also, students can use social bookmarking to learn from each other. They can look at their classmates sites and share resources, which could also benefit them while working on a group project.
This will not only benefit them in my classroom, they will have their social bookmarking site as they move up through the grade levels. Even if their future teacher does not use it in the classroom they will have the site for their own use.
Social bookmarking can also help to organize the classroom. The entire class will have access to all information about the class including, homework, and resources to help them succeed.
Social Bookmarking is also relevant in my current classes. For many classes we must write lesson plans, and research papers. By viewing someone's site that has had the class before you can find resources that they found reliable and helpful. This would also be a great resource for education courses, by viewing saved websites you can gain new ideas and inspiration for current lessons.
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