An excellent job making the case for blogging in education (How/Why/etc. mainly through loads of links) has been done by another blogger - and I've done it through anecdote at my first educational blog, but here I'll throw some recent hard research at you.
A blogging case study (Armstrong and Retterer, 2008) from the AACE Journal, affirmed that computer mediated communication makes writing more fun for students and there's indication that students wrote more, felt more confident and more accurately assimilated second language linguistic features (without overt instruction in grammar).
A phenomenological qualitative study (Felix, 2007) found first through a meta-anaylsis that
differentiated instruction, using multiple modes of presentation, will positively increase a student’s opportunity for learning. Communicating efficiently, using various communication methods, will enhance a teacher’s instructional effectiveness and a student’s ability to understand. Blogging appears to offer multiple opportunities [for this]...No big surprise. But then the study itself
- highlights the importance of writing in education,
- finds that blogging teachers changed instruction to more actively engage students
- indicates that blogging leads to greater collaboration, connected learning, cognitive complexity, student/ teacher dialogue
For an example (case study(?)) using blogging in a class click here.
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