RSS in Education

RSS can be very useful. It gives a person the ability to go to one site to get updates from websites that they frequent. It becomes a useful tool to save time and energy from having to go to multiple websites in order to get all your updates. It can be extremely useful in the classroom as well.

Some of the ways in which I would find using RSS in education would be to build a website for parents to become more involved in their child’s education. I would update the website weekly in order for the parents to be updated weekly on the happenings of the classroom. It would be a great way to go green and limit the amount of paper being sent home on the weekly happenings in the classroom.

Another way I would use RSS in education would be more for intermediate elementary students, middle, and high school students. I think it would be a great way to post assignments, homework, project information, etc. to a calendar on the website. Each time the website would be updated it would show up in their feed.

The third way that I would incorporate RSS into education would be subscribing to feeds myself in order to help guide and plan my instruction. I know there are so many websites that help teachers come up with new and innovative ways of teaching the same standards that I may not yet have thought about. Even though I am not the only one teaching my grade level at my school, we discuss things but we have the same curriculum to base our instruction on. It is great to look and read about what other teachers do in order to teach the same standard. It gives me ideas on how I can better teach the standards and take it back to my team in order to have better results achieved.

RSS in education can be a very useful tool if it is used correctly. It makes more efficient use of time and because time is being more efficiently used it gives you more time for actual instruction in the classroom.