Comments on: Measured Responses http://danielsblogfolio.edublogs.org/2006/06/17/measured-responses/ a reflective, communicative, evolving document of my work in EFL Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:47:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Charles Nelson http://danielsblogfolio.edublogs.org/2006/06/17/measured-responses/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Charles Nelson Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:47:05 +0000 http://danielsblogfolio.edublogs.org/2006/06/17/measured-responses/#comment-64 I've posted again on this topic and considered other possibilities for confirmation bias along with the format of commenting vs. trackback, such as author, audience, and nature of post. On what would a "measured discourse" mode of commenting look like, I wrote: "Perhaps the analogy of the maturing brain might be a suitable answer. That is, children's brains have many more neurons than adults do. Part of brain development is the pruning of unneeded neurons and circuits." So, with respect to learning, "measured discourse" would be more productive. On a sidenote, your trackback worked but didn't show up due to Haloscan limits on character length. I've corrected that problem for future posts but not older ones. I’ve posted again on this topic and considered other possibilities for confirmation bias along with the format of commenting vs. trackback, such as author, audience, and nature of post. On what would a “measured discourse” mode of commenting look like, I wrote:

“Perhaps the analogy of the maturing brain might be a suitable answer. That is, children’s brains have many more neurons than adults do. Part of brain development is the pruning of unneeded neurons and circuits.”

So, with respect to learning, “measured discourse” would be more productive.

On a sidenote, your trackback worked but didn’t show up due to Haloscan limits on character length. I’ve corrected that problem for future posts but not older ones.

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