Blog participation, especially in Logic and Critical Reasoning, has been fairly anemic this semester. Leaving aside the academic consequences of not fulfilling the assignment, I want to make a case for a special sort of collective responsibility in activities of this sort.
Of course, each student may choose not to participate, or to do so minimally and sporadically, and the consequences of that choice devolve to that student. Notice, however, that in this setting, where each student must both post and comment on others' posts, making such a choice directly affects the environment in which everyone else acts. Less activity creates, in the aggregate, a target-poor space for comment and discussion, which makes it less engaging for everyone, driving participation still lower. Below a certain threshold of activity (and I'm afraid we may be just on the cusp of that threshold) the interaction can't sustain itself, and everyone's learning suffers.
What do you all think?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment