Will Richardson has a good post on how many of the competencies required for information literacy can be addressed through blogging. Will’s quote from the American Library Association:
The information literate student validates understanding and interpretation of the information through discourse with other individuals, subject-area experts, and/or practitioners.
This is the kind of educational outcome, based on a process, that makes more sense than mastery of subject-based content. The content discussed in blogs is not as important as the skills developed through the process of blogging. The content is just grist for the cognitive mill.
