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Blogs Help Students Think for Themselves

It's a pretty light treatment, but nonetheless a sign of the wave of research that will show that blogging has beneficial effects in learning. The article describes "preliminary findings of PhD research by Anne Bartlett-Bragg, a lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney... '[The students] are thinking more critically,' she says. 'They are learning to be responsible and they're communicating outside the boundaries of the classroom and the institution, and they like that.'" In my view, what makes the difference between blogging and other sorts of journaling is the audience. As Bartlett-Bragg says, "They get such a buzz when they make a comment on another person outside the boundaries of the institution and that person responds, or even gives them some further reading." Anna Salleh, ABC Science Online, September 4, 2005. [Link] [Tags: Australia, Online Learning, Research, Web Logs, Gaming] [Previous][Next]

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Re: Blogs Help Students Think for Themselves

Anymouse, September 6, 2005

Pinging - what a great term. When I comment on a blog and then it pings and I get a message from the owner to my comment, most of the time I cant ping back - must depend on the blog set up [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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