Reasons to Blog

Just reread a great post by Wes Fryer on Google's Infinite Thinking Machine Blog - Blogging Can Make You Smarter. I have to agree with him that the process of blogging about new media and new literacies has really forced me to think about each reading I am doing and try and connect it back to my big ideas about how to we use these new tools to make education work better for all students. As so many authors have pointed out, I do not believe it is the technology alone - rather it is the pedagogy of engaging students in individualized learning with the use of new tools. It is just that the new web 2.0 tools make it so much easier to do this.