Facilitating Community Blogging Circles
Based on the podcast and written notes found on http://edublogging.posterous.com/ I am summarizing some main points of the use of edublogs by independent learners within private learning spaces. The first assumption I feel needs to be questioned is that learners Continue reading EduBlogging for Learning Partnerships
Bradley Ackroyd, an MDE student at Athabasca University, asked an important question about assessment and mechanisms of socialization: Should courses, online or otherwise, seek to socialize students? Social learning theory (Bandura, 1977) would suggest that all learning occurs within a Continue reading Thoughts on EduBlogging, Connectivism and Constructivism
Wendell Dryden, a community literacy educator and blogger, replied to a previous blog post, located online at http://me2u.athabascau.ca/elgg/glenngr4/weblog/1532.html Reading your post it occurred to me that “lurking” is what in other contexts we call “reading”. The complaint that learners are Continue reading Reading Blogs Actively – Not a Lurking Activity