Meaningful engagement and critical thinking in your personalized blog is a necessary criteria for demonstrating appropriate learning levels of ‘participation’ and ‘skills’ level of this academic course.
Here are some guides to build the capacity of the integrity, texture, richness, and critical rigor/edge in your blog:
Student blogs with “critical edge” show individuals who are constructing powerful, and empowering, narratives. Critical edge emerges through a process of inquiry, curiosity, and a measure of risk taking. “Critical edge” develops through daily application of blogging in conversation with issues, concepts and experiences. Student blogs with “critical edge”eir unique voice which~
➢ justifies their reasons for certain positions on a story-specific issue.
➢ goes beyond the question-and-answer and recitation type of response to texts that usually deal only with literal thinking
➢ identify and evaluate reasons as well as draw specific conclusions, which are often revealing of the individual—collective symbiosis of true communities engaged in analyzing community’s struggles
➢ formulate hypotheses and identifying central themes and issues.
➢ pose questions,
➢ assume more responsibility for determining what needs to be understood and for directing their own learning processes
➢ take positions in response to a question,
➢ consider other viewpoints,
➢ identify reasons in support of their positions,
➢ evaluate supporting reasons for truth and acceptability, as well as falsehoods, myths, fiction, and destructive texts
➢ draw final conclusions based on discussions with a community of learners, and are interactive, not singular in their thinking patterns
➢ take responsibility for their own learning and for evaluating their own thoughts
➢ show a participating posture as a learner and critically engaged thinker
➢ questions and reflects upon the intersections of knowledge, knowledge-making, and power
➢ tries new approaches to theorize different kinds of texts/ideas/issues which she/he is grappling with
➢ sustains an interest in the productivity of self-reflective, creativity
➢ is engaged with critical persons in respectful dialogue with one another
➢ makes predictions, assumptions about the text under consideration based on its title and cover and what they already know about key words in the title; and, can reflect back upon their assumptions and make necessary shifts and enlarge their understanding
➢ Evaluates truths, acceptability of supporting reasons as well as fallacies, constructedness, and power structure designing ‘truth’
➢ Drawing final conclusions on the merit of the possible answers
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