Blogs

**Standards that support the use of Blogs in the Classroom**
Performance Indicators for Students ** || ** -Life & Career Skills ** || ** 4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making: ** Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. || -Information, Media & Technology Skills ** ** -Life & Career Skills ** || ** 2. Communication and Collaboration: ** Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. ||
 * **AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner ** || **Partnership for 21st-Century Skills ** || **National Education Technology Standards and
 * ** 1. Learners use skills, resources, & tools to inquire, think critically and gain knowledge. ** || ** -Learning & Innovation Skills **
 * -Information, Media & Technology Skills **
 * 1.1.3. Develop and refine a range of questions to frame the search for new understanding. || ** Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: ** Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions.  || 4.a. Identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation. ||
 * **3. Learners use skills, resources, & tools to share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society.** || ** -Learning & Innovation Skills
 * 3.1.3. Use writing and speaking skills to communicate new understandings effectively. || ** Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Literacy: ** Use digital technologies, communication/networking tools and social networks appropriately to access, manage, integrate, evaluate and create information to successfully function in a knowledge economy.  || 2.c. Develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures. ||
 * 3.1.5. Connect learning to community issues. ||   || 2.b. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats ||   ||   ||