BLOGGING FOR REFLECTIVE LEARNING BEST PRACTICES & WORST MISTAKES Anand Ramchand Department of Information Systems 1 The Context - IS1103 Computing & Society ! Global ethical, social & legal vacuums around use of IT ! Objectives: ! Awareness, Sensitivity ! Exploration ! Need for reflection FISHEYSTREAM 2
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Blogging for reflective learning: Best practices and worst mistakes
The majority of our students are intimately familiar with blogs as a communication medium, having consumed their content on a regular basis. Creating content on a blog, on the other hand, is an exercise in reflection and can be used to stimulate deeper thought in students. Together with the social interaction and collaboration that occurs in blogging, the technology is an ideal platform to engage students in the individual and social processes of knowledge construction. However, administering an exercise that requires students to blog regularly throughout a semester poses several challenges. In this presentation, I share my experiences in using student blogs to encourage active and reflective learning, and some of the practices that worked (and those that didn't) to achieve this.
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BLOGGING FOR REFLECTIVE LEARNINGBEST PRACTICES & WORST MISTAKES
Anand RamchandDepartment of Information Systems
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The Context - IS1103 Computing & Society
! Global ethical, social & legal vacuums around use of IT
! Objectives:
! Awareness, Sensitivity
! Exploration
! Need for reflection
FISHEYSTREAM
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Reflective Learning
! Form of deeper mental processing in learning
! Active & critical thinking, understanding
! Draws out personal experiences and assumptions
! Forces reorganization of thoughts for application & analysis
! Catalyst for sense-making
! Several forms - concept maps, essays, forums, wikis, blogs
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Blogging
! Online publishing platform
! chronological
! easily updated
! interaction via readers
! Write once, read anywhere
! web, RSS readers, aggregators
ANNIEMOLE
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Platforms5
Blog.NUS6
Why Blogging?
! Social interaction to support knowledge construction
! Ownership over thoughts and understanding
! Informality promotes engagement
! Enhance writing and communication skills
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Guidelines for Students
! Group blogging - 3 to 4 students (44 groups)
! Each student had to make 4 posts in the semester