The effect of a pedagogy model integrated with weblogs on critical thinking skills of students

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 848-855

  Li, Kai Ming ^a  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Critical thinking skill; Information and communication technology; Information technology in education; Technology and pedagogy; Weblog and learning

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL THINKING; CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; HARD COPIES; HIGHER ORDER; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; LEARNING ACTIVITY; LEVEL-1; PEDAGOGICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SECONDARY SCHOOLS; THINKING SKILLS; WEBLOG AND LEARNING; WEBLOGS; WRITING ASSIGNMENTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84857095486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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