Blogs Help Students Think for Themselves

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Anna Salleh: Blogs Help Students Think for Themselves, ABC Science Online September 4, 2005

It's a pretty light treatment, but nonetheless a sign of the wave of research that will show that blogging has beneficial effects in learning. The article describes "preliminary findings of PhD research by Anne Bartlett-Bragg, a lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney... '[The students] are thinking more critically,' she says. More...