A post in response to http://eleanorsicteducationsmeanderings.blogspot.com/2011/09/more-vels-meandering.html
"I totally agree that ict offers the poetential to address these issues, however I feel that, particularly in relation to student confidence in idea expression, it can pose further problems. When students are directed to give each other feedback using ict a decision has to be made as to whether this feedback is anonymous or not. If it isn't anonymous then, for most students, it will be very much the same to simply giving feedback in class, and it will pose similar problems. However, if feedback is anonymous, students are not neccesarily held accountable for what they say. Even if this is not abused and students don't use their anonymity to ostracize or criticises each other, shouldn't we be encouraging students to defend thier points of view? To expose them to situations where they have to choose a point of view on an issue and intellectually defend it to their peers? I'm not speaking against the use of ict in a forum based medium, I'm just saying that maybe we need a way to incorporate the learning of this valuable skill set into ict."
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