BLOG BLOG

The big difference between high school and university is how the information is fed to you. In university so much of the learning is on you to do, “students are expected to take responsibility for managing their own learning” (Robertson 2011). At university we even take the things that are fed to us for granted. We skip lectures and sometimes tutes even though they are beneficial and entirely for us. I think that I learnt better and maybe worked harder at school where everything was explained and what we had to do was broken down into understandable pieces. Although school learning was easier for me, university life is more relevant. In real life you do not get fed information you have to go out there and find it for yourself.

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There are many ways of researching and learning at university. One of these, is blogs. This is a growing practice. This is the first blog I have done for university but I have found that each week it does increasingly help me to learn. For a start, this blog makes sure that I do the readings and it makes sure that I understand the content. This blog not only helps me to learn and improve it could also potentially be helping others in their learning and self improvement. This is one of the most significant perks of blogging, its public nature allows people to interact through comments and learn while helping others learn. “Blogging can be a medium for reflective writing which in turn can promote learning” (Robertson 2011). The thought of other people in this unit reading my blog also inspires me to work harder and motivates me to work to the highest standard I can achieve.

This is the first blog I have done for an educational purpose. At the start of the semester I had a lot less understanding of how a blog could possibly aid my learning. But I have learnt a whole new style of writing along with a lot about globalisation.

Who knows maybe someone is learning from my blog in another country right now?

References:
Robertson, J. 2011 ‘The educational affordances of blog for self-directed learning’, Computers and Education, vol. 57, pp. 1628 – 1644.