Great points re: class and blogging. I always knew you were a critical philosopher. These are important ideas, and often ignored by teachers who turn to blogging assignments. What’s also ignored is type of personalities/learning that blogging favours. I think you cover in the idea that blogging (or something like it) will be an essential activity for success, or at least one perceived to be, and thus, forced upon many.

The private blogging structure that you talk about in the first half has always been problematic to me. Not in the sense that it shouldn’t be done, but more so, it seems that part of the motivation for blogging in the first place disappears. This is greatly apparent in student blogging, and I would wager a bet that it is typical of most of the edubloggers you read. So the big question is how to you replace that motivation with something else?

Great thinking Dave, I’m looking forward to the next part of this.