Effects of Applying Blogs to Assist Life Education Instruction for Elementary School Students

The purpose of this study aims to explore the effects of applying blog-assisted life education instruction to fifth-grade elementary school students. The subjects were 30 fifth-grade students from southern Taiwan. The teaching experiment lasted 10 weeks with three sessions conducted each week. In th...

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Published in:TOJET the Turkish online journal of educational technology 2013-10, Vol.12 (4), p.41
Main Authors: Shi-Jer LOU, KAO, Mei-Chuan, YEN, Hsiu-Ling, Ru-Chu SHIH
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude Measures
Attitudes
Blogs
Career Planning
Collaboration
Cooperative Learning
Delphi Technique
Education
Educational Environment
Educational technology
Electronic Publishing
Elementary education
Elementary School Students
Foreign Countries
Grade 5
Instructional Effectiveness
Interviews
Learning
Learning Processes
Literacy
Quasiexperimental Design
Questionnaires
Secondary school students
Students
Studies
Taiwan
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Technology Uses in Education
Values Education
Web 2.0 Technologies
Web Sites
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Summary:The purpose of this study aims to explore the effects of applying blog-assisted life education instruction to fifth-grade elementary school students. The subjects were 30 fifth-grade students from southern Taiwan. The teaching experiment lasted 10 weeks with three sessions conducted each week. In the experiment, instructional effectiveness and the students life values were measured by the Life Education Values Scale, the Learning Effectiveness Scale, the Learning Attitude Scale, an e-portfolio, the students learning sheets, blog articles, the observation records of the teachers instruction, and the teachers reflection journal. The findings of this study show that the blog-assisted life education course is effective for higher-grade elementary school students. Additionally, the students information literacy and interests can be improved through e-portfolio in a blog-assisted life education course. Moreover, the students information literacy and competence, course satisfaction, collaborative learning attitudes, and attitudes toward blog use are improved. Finally, the students life education values are significantly enhanced through the blog assisted instruction in this study.
ISSN:1303-6521
1303-6521