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Enhancing Critical Thinking Through Blogging in Academia

This insightful piece explores the integration of blogs as tools for developing critical thinking skills in students. Highlighting the importance of inquiry-based learning, it discusses how engaging blogs can supplement scholarly work by providing rich, accessible content. The document emphasizes the role of community in fostering critical thinking habits and presents practical strategies for educators to utilize blogs effectively in instruction. It encourages students to actively engage with content, question assertions, and identify key concepts, enhancing their understanding of various subjects.

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Enhancing Critical Thinking Through Blogging in Academia

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  1. Using Blogs to Develop Critical Thinking Skills Brick & ClickNorthwest Missouri State University Ericka A. Raber University of Iowa

  2. 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)

  3. 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

  4. Why Blogs? • Critical Thinking • Library Instruction • No peer-reviewed stamp of approval • Short, often fun • Arguments • Rich selection • Provide contextfor activities

  5. but not serious Engaging blogs

  6. 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.

  7. Globalization and Social Change

  8. 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

  9. 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)

  10. Finding Blogs • http://www.google.com/blogsearch • http://researchblogging.org • http://academicblogs.org

  11. 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

  12. Your thoughts? Materials at: http://tinyurl.com/9vztplg Contact me: ericka-raber@uiowa.edu

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