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NOTES & IDEAS: Using Blogs to Teach Philosophy

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"Philosophical creativity involves raising the most thought-provoking questions and defending one’s own answers to such questions." Linda Patrik makes a convincing argument that blogging is a great means for encouraging creativity in philosophical debate, "especially when each student has his or her own blog, because it allows for fairly spontaneous expression of ideas and it invites students to journey out of their blogs into the blogworld established by another."

Incorporating Blogging in a Free Speech Course: Lessons Learned

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David Reichard, like S. Raj Chaudhury, a CASTL (Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) Scholar, has carefully studied the effects of incorporating blogging in his "Free Speech and Responsibility" course. Not only did students blog, but they wrote essays analyzing their own and other students’ blogs: "These essays provided invaluable 'meta' analysis of student learning in the course. Significantly, students described blogs as providing a public record of their own learning, making their process as learners visible to themselves and others."
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