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March 2, 2005

Blogging is Good for your Brain

Eide Neurolearning Blog and Learning Styles
More reasons for the goodness of blogging.

The best of blogs are rich in ideas and promote active exchange and critique. Rather than creating closed communities of like-minded troglodytes, these best blogs foster conversation, interactions with other blogs and other information sources, and invite feedback from their readers. Posts can form "threads" or links to other Web materials where readers can examine primary source material or articles that offer competing ideas and views. Blogs that follow this format are far from simple substitutes for television or video games. In fact, they are an ideal format for promoting critical and analytical thinking.

I agree. This is, perhaps, the most important aspect of blogs. It is more than a video game (not that there is not also immense potential for learning to occur with gaming) and also more than other types of web interactions (i.e. message boards, IM).

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...to remain popular with readers, blogs must be updated frequently. This constant demand for output promotes a kind of spontaneity and 'raw thinking'--the fleeting associations and the occasional outlandish ideas--seldom found in more formal media.

It is the seemingly paradoxical nature of blogs and other related technologies that make them so powerful (e.g. critical thought and spontaneity; personal and social).

Posted by Rovy at March 2, 2005 4:55 AM