Blogs in the Classroom?

What role do blogs play in the classroom? How do they change learning? A teacher -- and blogger -- tackles this question on his education-focused website Borderland. He writes: "Education bloggers understand that the deployment of new publishing tools in classrooms unhinges learning from the frame of the traditional classroom. When students change from recipients of information to active participants in knowledge exchange and construction, their roles as learners are redefined. The definition of classroom is opened for debate." Read the entire entry here.