Education Blogs

                    

  Two other blogs that caught my attention are :
1) Joanne Jacobs
Joanne is my guide to finding interesting education stories all over the web.  She posts daily, sometimes several times a day, but her posts are usually brief summaries with links to other sources and the topics are always interesting.  For example,she directed me to New York Times article    involving  nine- and 10-year-old students, the fittest children, as measured by a treadmill test, performed best on cognitive challenges; MRIs showed “significantly larger basal ganglia, a key part of the brain that aids in maintaining attention and executive control. The results Since both groups of children had similar socioeconomic backgrounds, body mass index and other variables, the researchers concluded that being fit had enlarged that portion of their brains.

2) So You Want To Teach?
Who doesn't love a good list?  This blog is full of them, and they are truly useful.  Some examples are :
Top 5(Plus 14) character Traits of Superior Teachers,
 5 Habits of Highly Effective Teacher and 9 Reasons to Quit Teaching (and 10 Reasons to Stick).
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 These are some of the pros and cons reading education blogs.
the pros

Inexpensive: reading a blog doesn't cost anything except time

Personal view points can enhance the reading experience

Can choose which blogs to read, and even which of the messages you can read

Very quick response, can learn about news within hours or minutes of first announcement

The cons

Slightly difficult to set up (although it is getting easier)

Personal view points can cloud the issues

Very inconsistent, even on the best of blogs

Usually don't get the whole story

That's all the time you've spent reading news blogs

 The document 7 things you should know about......RSS , why it is significant is  because it can filter and organize the vast amount of information on the web and its downside is that not all content is appropriate for RSS such as a published article that is not going to change

Blogging is pretty cool, once you get use to it, definitey something  I will experiment with in the near future. My class has a set of laptops, my school is enforcing writing across all subjects and this could be one way to get my (N-Gen)students to do reflective writing  in mathematics.