Metacognition: Blogs

When I first found out that we would be blogging this year in English, I was a little apprehensive. I thought that I didn't have anything important enough to say to put in a blog. What I soon realized, though, was that I was using the blogs more as an internal thing than external. By that I mean that I really found out a lot about myself while reading blogs that I had written. Whereas previously I had thought that the blogs were about sharing my thoughts with the world, I soon discovered that it was about clarifying and delving deeper into my own thoughts. This was pretty cool, and I often benefited from these looks into my own thought process.

Another great thing about the blogs was reading my classmates' posts. Sometimes I would do this as part of a brainstorming process, to gather ideas for my own post. Other times, the assignment would be to read other people's blogs and comment on them. In the process, I learned a lot about other people in Academy. For example, did you know that Jon Choi is an atheist? I was shocked when I learned this from reading his blog.

The experience of writing and reading blogs was very rewarding, and I'm glad that we did them. Hopefully, next year in English we will have similar assignments that help us grow and recognize our growth.