John Cleary

Thanks for all the information about blogging and how to use it to engage students.

Note: Your comments about "head" and "heart" (referring to younger students and older adults) needs to be clearer.

Do you mean that younger people are not able to engage in the same quality/level of reasoning adults engage in? This is a contestable claim.

What is the evidence for this?

Piaget was wrong. Children can also philosophize well if adults allow them to.

Side Note: Look also at David Hume's description that people (young and old) are a "bundle of sense impressions."

There are also mutiple… >>>

This is excellent.

"Edmodo is a site that allows users to establish a class microblogging network where only those in the course can post, share, and critique each other’s ideas. This provides an opportunity for the online instructor to have students share information in a secure site and facilitate the development of providing constructive criticism. Other microblogging sites may be set up in a similar fashion. When students feel that their comments are only being read and responded to by their peers, many times the facilitation of the conversation is not as difficult as they feel comfortable in that secure… >>>

"Business students may follow Donald Trump." What is being insinuated in a a comment like this?

That business students can learn NOT to cheat and lie? Or does it mean something else altogether?

The most compelling reason to use the sites is for sharing information. This has important implication for teaching and learning.

If students are already immersed in social media for personal purposes, then it may follow

that using social media in an academic setting would assist the instructor in content delivery. However, I am still

skeptical that social media helps students think critically, or value the purpose of contemplative thinking. What's the last book they've read? 

Knowledge acquisition is important. Good. But what about the role of reflective thinking?