Thursday, April 22, 2004
Blogs as reflective learning
On my way in to work this morning, I was wondering what actual use my blog is, and, more to the point, why it has continued after the course it was originally designed to support has stopped. There are a number of reasons: one of the more useful ones is that it has expanded the range of things I look at and am aware of in the world of interaction, design, users, technology and so on than I was before - all these can offer useful material for the blog and so I tend to have a reason for looking.
Introspecting further, I also think that the blog a an excellent learning tool - particularly for reflective practice.
(after Klob 1984).
Blogging supports reflective learning on action - evaluating what you are doing and have done, and how it fits into a greater whole. Not all of blogging slots into this category, however, which is probably why doing a blog is easier than keeping a learning diary or whatever. There's not a vast amount of literature on this - Sebastien Fiedler is one of the few to produce much output on it. For me, it sometimes serves to concentrate my thoughts on what I have been doing. Trouble is, it often serves to distract me from what I should be doing as well.
On my way in to work this morning, I was wondering what actual use my blog is, and, more to the point, why it has continued after the course it was originally designed to support has stopped. There are a number of reasons: one of the more useful ones is that it has expanded the range of things I look at and am aware of in the world of interaction, design, users, technology and so on than I was before - all these can offer useful material for the blog and so I tend to have a reason for looking.
Introspecting further, I also think that the blog a an excellent learning tool - particularly for reflective practice.
(after Klob 1984).Blogging supports reflective learning on action - evaluating what you are doing and have done, and how it fits into a greater whole. Not all of blogging slots into this category, however, which is probably why doing a blog is easier than keeping a learning diary or whatever. There's not a vast amount of literature on this - Sebastien Fiedler is one of the few to produce much output on it. For me, it sometimes serves to concentrate my thoughts on what I have been doing. Trouble is, it often serves to distract me from what I should be doing as well.
(c) 2003-2005 Russell Beale
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