TJ9 Working on the blog in the system class.

In the system class, students did the activities on the blog and  I could observe different attitudes and behaviours in them. First of all,I noticed that although students had the instructions of the activities on the blog,they asked me "teacher what do I have to do? ".I could see that students did not like to read long texts since they were lazy to read all the instructions.I thought that maybe the instructions were very long in some activities. Another issue that I could observe in the groups was that some students did all the activities and the others did not do anything although I encouraged them to help their classmates.I also noticed that students got confused using two pages on the blog.Though students had the instructions on the blog they wanted to be told what they had to. Furthermore, I observed that although theory says that teenagers are digital natives because they were born in a digital era, the students who participated in the research project using the blog have difficulties using technological tools. For instance,some students asked me about how to upload a picture. I really believed that becuase they are familiar with social networks like facebook, they would use technological tools very easy,but some of the students showed difficulties using the blog  and lack of interest.

I also realized that some students did not do the activities on the blog because they were not mandatory and although I tried to motivate them with some extra marks in English class they did not care about that. Moreover, I think that parents were not very attentive to check if students had taken advantage of the blog although they knew that it was a very useful resource for students to practice English at home.