In this post by Sebastian Fiedler, there are a number of interesting insights regarding the use of blogs by students as a new form of learning. He first quote from this post by Spike Hall:
Reading two edublogging entries (
one here and
the second here) from James Farmer started me off. Initially he cited blog entries of
Seb Fiedler and
Seb Paquet , [in response to Seb Fiedler] on equipping college and graduate students with weblogs as a major learning and self-development tool. Their entries are well worth your time.
To their thoughts I would add two. First, this is not simply a technology you are trying to hand over to these students. You are passing over the deuterolearning (aka meta-learning and learning-to-learn) torch.
Sebastian Fiedler responds by adding that facilitating this "learning-to-learn" can be a challenge:
I keep bumping into missing "subskills and attitudes" of adult learners whenever I try to integrate personal Webpublishing practices into formal course settings
People are used to certain way of learning. It is not enough to hand over some new technology or tools. People are often resitant to change - and so it is with changing how we learn. Students may need to develop these subskills and attitudes prior to fully embracing blogging as a new form of learning. So students may need to be taught not just how to learn for themselves, but how to develop the attitudes and subskills that may enable to to embrace self-learning tools such as blogging. Very interesting.
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