I first went to technorati and found a blog about life long learning and teaching(surprise?) http://teachingislearning.com/. This person is teaching in Japan and exploring his/her own philosophy of education. There is an interesting post about a recent Newsweek article discussing the benefits of writing by hand vs typing. Apparently, brain scans show that handwriting engages the brain more than typing. This is something I have wondered about as our students spend more and more time creating on a computer and less time with pencil and paper. Below is a piece from the site:
Great teachers love to learn.
We seek new knowledge, new ways of thinking, new points-of-view in many areas, and we apply these to our classes. We do not seek to teach our students--we guide our students to learning, to create a love of learning, so those we teach will learn to teach themselves.
This blog is about developments in education throughout the world, learning to learn, and most of all, the love of learning.
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
--Socrates
I then looked for blogs about teaching science on google. I found little of interest and several folks ranting. I spent about an hour searching and scanning with nothing of note to share. In fact, it was more of a turn off for me. Perhaps I need to use different search terms?
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