Abstract
“Reflection is central to all learning” (Bruner, 1960, p. 13) and the skills required of the reflective teacher and the individual attempting to become an independent learner are similar. With today’s twenty-first century learners, it is important that educators advocate integrating twenty-first century skills into their reflection activities. In Ray and Coulter’s study (2008) on the use of blogs by teachers for reflective purposes, the authors conclude that “Teachers would benefit from combining the skills of technology and reflection,” and that “these kinds of public technologies provide a way for teachers not only to analyze their own practice, but also to share their reflections with others” (p. 20). Teachers and students can now avail themselves of various online and computer-based applications in order to reflect on their learning. This paper briefly examines research on reflection in education and the use of new online technologies as tools to assist learners in their reflection experiences. The results of a survey completed by students in the authors’ three university classes who used online technologies to reflect on their learning experiences indicate that there are positive benefits for integrating web-based tools into the reflection process.