Research Blogging

from:

Lankshear, Colin, and Michele Knobel. “Do-It-Yourself Broadcasting: Writing Weblogs in a Knowledge Society.” Paper. American Education Research Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, April 21, 2003. [my paper copy]

Quotes:

1. [Writing] …tends to get ‘indviduated’ in writing pedagogy. [However,] much of the power in powerful writing lies in affiliation with some larger collective (11).

2. …the fact remains that students in school-based writing classes typically have no authentic, tangible audience (11).

3. …other than the blog there is no efficient digital tool for archiving and tracking information in ways that can narrate paths taken in the systematic exploration and development of a theme, topic or point of view and thereby reveal a structure of knowledge. Blogging lends itself to this kind of memory extension work in ways that produce useful audit trails of ideas that emerge and develop as one searches the internet for information on matters of personal interest (17).

4. …getting beyond the kinds of ‘pretend’ research activities (classroom ‘projects’) that typically prevail in school curriculum work, and beginning from significant problems that call for serious data collection and analysis (18).

5. …blogs as research tools... (18).

6. …promoting reflection on one’s knowledge trails across the internet (18).

7. …research as blogging, and blogging as research… (19).