Edu blogging for Maximum Student Learning

Lessons

I have never ventured the area of blogging. Be it for business, personal or for educational purposes until this final year of my college course in which we were encouraged to post a meta-analysis of all things concerning the broad topic of Endocrinology and Toxicology. To be honest, at first I cannot grasp the importance of creating an account, posting all the meta-analyzed information concerning the subject matter and presenting it to the class while the professor is evaluating it. If the purpose is to learn wouldn't thorough reading and understanding suffice? Furthermore it is time consuming and needs internet connection. 

But then as I started gathering information (which I learnt more since I use several references including books and the internet), in here I learned how assess the credibility of a reference, how to meta-analyze—that is contrasting and combining results from different studies, in the hope of identifying patterns among study results, sources of disagreement among those results, or other interesting relationships that may come to light in the context of multiple studies.

While writing a post, certain terms that I cannot understand can be researched easily through internet and other references I have chosen therefore understanding the topic is made easier.

Additional visual aids such as pictures, video, graphs or figures that can help in simplifying a complex and broad topic is highly accessible by searching the web.

Educational blogging is a two way learning experience. It teaches both the blogger and the readers/fellow bloggers. 

Through blogging, these principles are exemplified thus maximizing the  student learning ability. As I have learned in the Principles of Teaching and Learning; it  states in the first principle that learning is an active process wherein it is summarized as:

What I hear, I forget.

What I see, I remember.

What I do, I understand.

It is further supported by the second principle which is the more  senses that are involved in learning, the more and the better the learning.

And through active learning using several senses, there is application and retention.

P.S.Thank you Ma'am VBG for introducing edu blogging to us!:)






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