Engage Me or Enrage Me!

     The "Engage Me or Enrage Me!" article is one that highlights many points in regards to today's students attitudes towards school and the curriculum. It is the responsibility of the teacher to ensure that their students are learning what is required. A factor influencing how much a student takes away from a lesson is the level of engagement. The curriculum's taught in schools today are not up to the standards of today's young society and needs to be updated.
     Blogs would add a great amount of interaction and engagement in classrooms today. By creating and posting on individual blogs, students would have the ability and opportunity to share their opinions and ideas with one another. An example of an engaging way that blogs could be used in the classroom is to allow students to complete assignments through their blogs verses perhaps writing in journals or completing papers. By allowing students to complete work through a blog, not only are they going to be engaged in their assignments because it is a technical and updated tool that will hold their attention but the students also have the opportunity to personalize their blogs and make them their own which in turn will encourage them to use their blogs more often and will also encourage communication and participation among the students as well. Overall, introducing blogs into the classroom environment  would have a positive effect on students and would be engaging and encouraging.