"Psychology Today": Blog Entries as Educational

Psychology Today Blog Entries as Educational
Psychology Today blog entries are educational.
Published on October 26, 2010
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-good-life/201010/psychology-today-blog-entries-educational

This article is written by a psychology professor at the University of Michigan who in the process of examining the mounds of research articles he assigned his (N >250) students, he thought it would be of interest to ask the students to read Blogs. He invited the students to find blogs that were relevant and offered citations so that the students could dig deeper. In an examination to find if this teaching method was useful he discovered that the students had read more content / learned more from reading blogs than from research articles and course texts alone. He suggests that the reason the students responded so well to the blog is because in the blog the writer will “cut to the chase” (“Psychology Today”, 2010)

Respectfully Submitted, Krystal Demaine