ON THE FLIP
SIDE OF THE COIN - THINKING DISPOSITIONS IN LEARNING BLOGS
Ela Peleg, Gila Kurtz,
The College for Academic Studies, Israel
This paper describes
a study of a learning blog, a web 2.0 application, as a tool for promoting the
utilization of thinking dispositions, the use of variety of thinking
dispositions and the possibility of an increase in the incidence of use of thinking
dispositions. The study was conducted at the College for Academic Studies in
Israel, in a Master Program’s on ICT and Learning. Data was collected from a
sample of student's blogs. The content analysis category was based on a rubric
developed by the researchers for the purposes of this study. The rubric was
used as a basis for coding thinking dispositions and their components in the
learning blogs records.
The research
findings revealed that the learning blogs contains representations of thinking
dispositions, in a large quantity and in a wide variety.
The results show that students' postings indeed displayed evidence
of thinking dispositions processes. The study discusses implications for
instructors wishing to add blogs to their teaching toolbox.
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