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Professional learning session, coming soon
Blogs can have many versions – choose what best suits desired learning outcome - journal, forums, chats
What is a blog?- it is a is website, usually maintained
by an individual with regular entries of commentary, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. It may be private or public and may or may not invite comments and feedback
Reflecting about Blogs and Journals
1. This presentation will not cover this book
Material from this book will be referred to in the Professional Learning session
The Professional Learning session will cover the various options in moodle, and which and where you would use these and why you might use another option like edublogs
2. This slideshow will not cover how to use blogs safely or their many uses in the classroom
This slideshow will consider
3. The role of action/creation and reflection in learning and blogs
This slideshow will consider
4. Some practicalities of blogging
3. The role of action/creation and reflection in learning
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/John_Dewey_lib.jpg
“Reflective thinking is always more or less troublesome because it involves overcoming the inertia that inclines one to accept suggestions at their face value; it involves willingness to endure a condition of mental unrest and disturbance. Reflective thinking, in short, means judgment suspended during further inquiry; and suspense is likely to be somewhat painful. … To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry—these are the essentials of thinking. ”
John Dewey 1910
Coined terms such as active learning, hands on learning and experiential learning
John Dewey said that action and reflection are two sides of the same coin.
So, reflective thinking is an essential part of constructivist and critical and higher order thinking.
Without reflection there is no thinking, and knowledge is the raw material for thinking. Feedback should inform every stage of learning. The paradigm that assessment should be an integral part of learning underpins the Understanding By Design model.
So, how do we get students to act/create and reflect in ways that maximise learning?
John Dewey
Gordon, C., Scan - Raising Active Voices in School Libraries: authentic learning, information processing and guided inquiry part 2, the role of reflection, Vol. 28, No. 4, Nov 2009 pp27-33
Carol Gordon from Rutgers University –presenting at the Somerset Literature Festival, Jupiters Casino, 2010
March 15, Ways of Knowing: Reading and Literature as Aesthetic Experience March 16 Guided Inquiry in Digital Worlds
http://www.somerset.qld.edu.au/conflib/programme/
Scan - Raising Active Voices in School Libraries: authentic learning, information processing and guided inquiry part 2, the role of reflection, Vol. 28, No. 4, Nov 2009 pp27-33
Carol suggests that Journals or blogs can be instruments of creation/action and reflection that offer snapshots of cognitive, affective and behavioural indicators that signal students’ needs that might otherwise be lost in the learning process
Journals and blogs may focus on product or process
Carol suggests using questions and writing prompts to create focus and challenge
Reflection in inquiry learning is a key form of intervention to help students make the information to knowledge connection and will support critical thinking and growth of metacognition if tasks are stuctured and focused
One of the problems is that reflective writing can be trivial and merely a recount or descriptive
http://www.edutopia.org/files/existing/images/graphics/fea_collabage_walls_newskillsstat.jpgBLOGS can promote many learning outcomes
Skills students need to succeed in the new age
Year of Creativity
Habits of Mind – Creativity, Imagining,
Innovation Listening with empathy and
listening
4. Practicalities of bloggging.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2228/2534494559_88722c6f74_b.jpg http://willrichardson.wikispaces.com/page/pdf/home
http://www.edutopia.org/collaboration-age-technology-will-richardson
Blog by eleven-year-old community volunteer Laura Stockman about service projects
Where does she got her ideas for her good work? "I ask my readers.”
See the Clustrmap on Laura‘s blog
She has a network of connections, people from almost every continent and country, who share their own stories of service or volunteer to assist Stockman in her work. She's sharing and learning and collaborating in ways that were unheard of just a few years ago
http://twentyfivedays.wordpress.com
Blogs – Easy Uploading Demonstration
http://readingpower.edublogs.org/
http://edublogs.org/wp-login.php
Blogs in Moodle
Show Italy trip blog in moodle
Reading http://persnicketysnark.blogspot.com/2009/09/bbaw-
persnickety-snark-blog.html
http://lisahillschoolstuff.wordpress.com
Travel http://champagnetravelonabeerbudget.com/ http://www.tripbase.com/awards/budget/
Further Reading http
://www.slideshare.net/rrodgers/constructivism-and-educational-technology
http://www.questiaschool.com/read/109676406
Later perusal
Professional Learning session will briefly refer to the theory, but spend most of the time showing
how to use the journal and blog formats in moodle and
how to start an edublogs page
In class – blogs in Year 11 English Communications
Example of use in class