Great Leanring Community!
I read your entries, and I thank you all for your thoughtful comments on Janelle's question, and I particulary thank Janelle for posing great questions for us to think about and respond to. As I read your entries, the abstract concepts in the textbook came alive as you shared your own experience. Thank you for your insightful and honest attitude toward one another. I am very pleased at how this class is turning out. When I first learned about Blogs, I saw some potential for instruction, but I wasn't sure how I could use it in the course. I thought that some people may not like to blog, so they would not participate. When I saw all of you left comments, this learning community is going to work. You helped me to scaffold the technical aspects of blogging as well as educational use of the blog by posing great questions and comments.
This week's experience made me think that I want to change my teaching strategies. Here are the things I learned: Make this a more learner centered course. My graduate students have much more interesting questions than I can make up. I like to read 10 different examples from 10 different people.
posted by Come and See Africa @ 11:08 AM
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I think the Blogging experience opens a new way for the students to interact intellectually, and that is what really a graduate course should be; especially in a course that is heavily loaded with theories, and concepts. The comments in the relation to the question motivates people to go further than the text, and takes the student into different routes; for example I found the Janelle question a more practical, and useful in relation to ideas presented by Vygotsky, but I found also the practicality of the question leave also the doors to go over the boundaries, make the setting more colorful in the domain of thought;Vygotsky further pushes the implication into the social settings, therefore create the scaffolds to hang on for really opening a critical eye on Piaget, and his more solitary confinement of a child mind. Then let’s move for this ongoing dialogue of thought that in sense feed the basis of practice.
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