Blogging and Benefiting
John Franklin,
Education Update,
Feb 21, 2005
Overview of blogging in education written for ASCD's Education Update which looks sound at first but suffers from questionable research. As Will Richardson notes, the author's assertion that "Of the 10 million to 15 million people who blog daily, technical experts estimate that only a few hundred thousand are educators" is questionable - the "technical experts" are not identified, and none of the people I know in the field would place the figure so high. The author also gets some acronyms wrong in the (short) glossary (and actually differeing from his cited source). And one wonders about the rest. "I would never use a blog for venting," it quotes someone as saying at one point. Or: "Blogs can be helpful in combating burnout." No, this article is about blogs, but it doesn't understand blogs.
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