Pedagogical blogging : promoting tertiary level students` critical thinking by using socratic questions.

This study seeks to investigate the effects of pedagogical blogging on tertiary students’ critical thinking. The authors initially discuss the role of Socratic questions in promoting students’ critical thinking through Web 2.0 tools. They further explain how blogging was incorporated into the curric...

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Main Authors: Shahsavar, Zahra, Tan, Bee Hoon
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: National University of Singapore 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27998/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27998/1/Pedagogical%20blogging.pdf
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description This study seeks to investigate the effects of pedagogical blogging on tertiary students’ critical thinking. The authors initially discuss the role of Socratic questions in promoting students’ critical thinking through Web 2.0 tools. They further explain how blogging was incorporated into the curriculum of a course for tertiary level students enrolled in a Malaysian university. Finally, they show how qualitative and quantitative methods were used to evaluate the efficiency of Socratic questions in students’ blogging and its effects on students’ critical thinking. Findings suggest that implementing Socratic questions in students’ blogging would help promote students’ critical thinking.
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spelling upm-279982016-02-02T01:35:14Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27998/ Pedagogical blogging : promoting tertiary level students` critical thinking by using socratic questions. Shahsavar, Zahra Tan, Bee Hoon This study seeks to investigate the effects of pedagogical blogging on tertiary students’ critical thinking. The authors initially discuss the role of Socratic questions in promoting students’ critical thinking through Web 2.0 tools. They further explain how blogging was incorporated into the curriculum of a course for tertiary level students enrolled in a Malaysian university. Finally, they show how qualitative and quantitative methods were used to evaluate the efficiency of Socratic questions in students’ blogging and its effects on students’ critical thinking. Findings suggest that implementing Socratic questions in students’ blogging would help promote students’ critical thinking. National University of Singapore 2013-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27998/1/Pedagogical%20blogging.pdf Shahsavar, Zahra and Tan, Bee Hoon (2013) Pedagogical blogging : promoting tertiary level students` critical thinking by using socratic questions. ELTWorldOnline.com, 5. pp. 1-21. ISSN 1793-8732 http://blog.nus.edu.sg/eltwo/category/volume-v-2013/page/2/ English
spellingShingle Shahsavar, Zahra
Tan, Bee Hoon
Pedagogical blogging : promoting tertiary level students` critical thinking by using socratic questions.
title Pedagogical blogging : promoting tertiary level students` critical thinking by using socratic questions.
title_full Pedagogical blogging : promoting tertiary level students` critical thinking by using socratic questions.
title_fullStr Pedagogical blogging : promoting tertiary level students` critical thinking by using socratic questions.
title_full_unstemmed Pedagogical blogging : promoting tertiary level students` critical thinking by using socratic questions.
title_short Pedagogical blogging : promoting tertiary level students` critical thinking by using socratic questions.
title_sort pedagogical blogging : promoting tertiary level students` critical thinking by using socratic questions.
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27998/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27998/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27998/1/Pedagogical%20blogging.pdf