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Blogging Spheres
By Glenn Groulx December 13, 2010 - 1:40pm Comments (3)
Listen to this podcast: (about 15 minutes) Blogging Spheres
Glenn Groulx
I am interested in exploring edublogging for literacy learners, to empower them to tell stories, and foster confidence in their voices.
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Comments
Can you comment on why you suggest "Knowledge Building" is an inherently structured activity and would only occur in a cohort. Does this suggest knowledge building does not occur in a master/apprentice or mentoring relationships?
hello eric,
Thank you for your comment, and your question.
My initial thinking was that the dominant activity for cohorts involved knowledge building; however, the processes occur within all four spheres.
Knowledge building most definitely occurs within mentoring relationships, but my thinking (from my own experience) is that the dominant activity is not knowledge building (primarily cognitive) or networking (narcissistic harvesting of others' resources for personal use) but instead involves a combination of community building and identity building.
My hypothesis is that knowledge building requires a teacher actively modelling and evaluating the learning activities, and providing feedback and encouragement for participants. The skills required for successful adjustment into an online cohort depends on the learner adapting to what their instructor tells them. In my thinking, there are crucial skills needed by learners best learned within a cohort with the aid of an expert. Gathering data, sifting and filtering, evaluating, and capturing the data harvesting process systematically can be most efficiently organized when learners are taught the skills step by step.
I think that the Moodle LMS is a very powerful tool for encouraging blogging - the editir, for example, lends itself very well to demonstrating activities such as texturing and weaving.
However, the ELGG environment is better suited for learners beginning to hone their blog posts using tags, categories, and access settings.
Thanks again for your feedback.
Glenn
Yup, that shuold defo do the trick!
- Trevion