Jill’s talk at Brown
Jill Walker’s post today about her talk at Brown is so good. She is planning to talk mostly about using blogs with students. She is going to stress network literacy and how blogging is not simply keeping an electronic journal, it’s distributed and collaborative; it’s learning to think and write with the network. She’s also going to talk a bit about the ethics of insisting students blog in public. I sure wish I could be in attendance!
A few excerpts follow but you HAVE to read her post to follow all the links that show examples.
Bringing network literacy to the classroom means jolting students out of the conventional individualistic, closed writing of essays only ever seen by your professor.
Encouraging linking is key.
Overturns conventional power relationships - who defines who?
How empowering is it to be forced to blog?
Blogging isn’t for everybody
Best learning experiences unplanned: L. and the web diarist; the way students started teaching each other, connections between students and others.
This post will really make you think - thanks for sharing, Jill. Still wish I could be in the audience for the entire talk!—–