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Using Blogs to Develop Critical Thinking Skills. Brick & Click Northwest Missouri State University Ericka A. Raber University of Iowa. Inspirations. “I Need Three Peer Reviewed Articles…” Farkas
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Using Blogs to Develop Critical Thinking Skills Brick & ClickNorthwest Missouri State University Ericka A. Raber University of Iowa
Inspirations • “I Need Three Peer Reviewed Articles…” Farkas • Beyond Peer-Reviewed Articles: Using Blogs to Enrich Students’ Understanding of Scholarly Work (Deitering and Gronemyer) • Inquiry-based learning (Stripling) • Miniature Guide to CT (Paul and Elder)
http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/critical-thinking-in-every-domain-of-knowledge-and-belief/698http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/critical-thinking-in-every-domain-of-knowledge-and-belief/698
Why Blogs? • Critical Thinking • Library Instruction • No peer-reviewed stamp of approval • Short, often fun • Arguments • Rich selection • Provide contextfor activities
but not serious Engaging blogs
Guiding Ideas • Critical thinking • is a habit of the mind (attitudes, dispositions) • is supported by community • involves questioning • Less is more • Context is key • Students should be working harder than you are.
In-Class Worksheet • While reading your text think about: • What claims are being made? How are the claims supported? What do you want to learn? How can you learn more? Where might the conversations be taking place? • Related to your text/topic, identify: • Keywords and concepts, Contacts, Sources/Studies
Instruction Sessions • One-shots • Model thinking/search strategies • Have students pose questions for a text related to their topic • Discuss next steps (where to look) • One-shots+ • Coordinate longer activity with instructor (use blog from class)
Finding Blogs • http://www.google.com/blogsearch • http://researchblogging.org • http://academicblogs.org
Future Directions • Semester-long course: Personal Learning Network Assignment, Howard Rheingold (@hrheingold); managing info tasks • Work with Grad Students—blogs, #conference, network creation and curation
Your thoughts? Materials at: http://tinyurl.com/9vztplg Contact me: ericka-raber@uiowa.edu