Real World... Real Life

When you bring blogs into your courses—at least the way I am talking about—you have to move in new directions. There’s no choice but to embrace a connected, collaborative learning model, one that puts the students and the subject matter in direct contact with one another within a real-world context. We blogging teachers give up a whole lot of control. Authority shifts from the teacher in the center to the entire group in a noded network. You cannot always predict outcomes—what kids will write on the blogs, what they will learn, how the chemistry of the learning group and the interaction with the outside world will contribute to the experience. How terrifying, how risky—how like life.

June 02, 2006

"At the UK's First Edublogging Conference: My Talk"
Barbara Ganley
http://mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblogging/

How do you feel about the loss of control that blogging will require? Do you feel this is "real life" education?