Breakout Session 5: Science blogs and online forums as teaching tools
Martin Fenner
Thursday, 24 July 2008 21:27 UTC
Martin Fenner, Oliver Obst and Jeff Marlow
We will discuss the role that science blogs and online forums are having in teaching science today. In a panel discussion we will look at practical examples and examine their potential as well as their shortcomings. To foster the use of these online tools in teaching, we hope to come up with a list of suggestions for both educators and software developers at the end of the session.
I would like to use this forum topic to prepare for the session at the conference. We will have only 45 minutes, so it would be great if we could get an interesting discussion going before the meeting.
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I’ve spotted this item in the Times Higher Education from a couple of weeks back:
Grappling with the digital divide
“Students are increasingly ‘transliterate’, communicating across a range of technologies”. Discusses the use of web technologies in teaching.
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As everybody else I’m still digesting what I learned and discussed during the blogging conference. One personal conclusion from the education session: don’t work too hard to create rewards for teachers and students in the form of grades for blogging, etc. The only thing that matters is the added value.
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