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Encouraging Kids to Blog

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Kids should be blogging more. All they need is a little bit of inspiration and a pencil to write with. Wouldn't it be great if blogging tools were refit to provide the inspiration and the mechanism?

"I was the one who figured out why the sky turned red..."

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  1. (name not saved), January 28, 2005

    Right on! Research have shown that kids write better on computers. Now, they are doing research to figure out "why?" at York University. My humble opinion is that kids write better on a computer because they see their output in printed form, which makes them feel more like an adult and accordingly more thoughtful in what they write. Layer the impact of not just writing to print but writing to publish to the world, the kids may well take it up another level of creativity.