Facilitating Community Blogging Circles
I think the bigger picture involves a fundamental shift from treating students as objects to be measured or evaluated or changed or filled or improved or assimiliated, to treating students as legitimate co-participants. I have chosen blogging for advocacy to Continue reading Fundamental Shift: Assessment for Learning
In a typical group edublog setting in common use today, the majority of interactions continue to be through either the filter of a single central authority, the instructor, or through a group of peers. The use of the Class Blog, Continue reading Current Pedagogy of Group Edublogs
Walk-Blogging – this is a term I made up while walking along, thinking through my ideas for assignments, and was wondering if I could somehow capture the ideas in real-time, and post them to my blog as notes I can Continue reading Walk Blogging
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