Why edu-blogging
Weblogs as a transformational technology for higher education and academic research
by Oliver Wrede
This is thought-provoking if you’re contemplating the interplay of blogs and learning.
- In school, students have learned for years to circumvent teacher’s demands with almost perfect cleverness. This problem that can amount to a complete detachment from primary learning goals: many students (not all) start challenging the educational system by reverse-engineering implicit rules of performance approval and without actually complying with the goals of a curriculum.
»Students today: Cooperative and self-determined«
- How can a learning culture be changed over time? If educators want to help students to become more self-determined in a over-directed enviroment there is little option but to offer ways for self-expression and to honor any activity in this regard.
Table 2. Command & Control vs. Emergent Organisations.
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