Saturday, September 8, 2007

Transparency and constructivism, etc. (Or five good reasons to blog the research process)

Joyce Valenza
September 8, 2007

A little while back I argued that your next wiki should be a pathfinder. Here's another argument: major research projects should be blogged.

This week marked the third year I've introduced the concept of research blogs to students. This year, the idea is catching on bigtime. For major projects, like our culminating Senior Seminar project, we encourage students to blog their research experience, to share the process, to let us in. In our school, Pennsylvania's traditional senior project involves: an outside mentored experience, a major research paper, a project resulting from the experience and the research, a presentation of the semester-long exploration...

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