Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

HELP WANTED – THE PUSH continues: Science education blogs

Yesterday I announced THE PUSH… [and we generated an amazing list in just 24 hours]

Today we work on SCIENCE EDUCATION. What are some excellent science education blogs that P-12 science educators should be reading? We need both elementary and secondary examples. If you know of some, please add them to the Moving Forward wiki.

Why are we doing this?

To identify blogs that P-12 teachers can use to initially seed (or expand) their RSS readers

To create a single location where P-12 educators can go to see excellent subject-oriented educational blogging

To highlight excellent disciplinary blogging that deserves larger audiences

To learn from disciplines other than our own and get ideas about our own teaching and/or blogging

Thanks in advance for helping with this initiative. If we all contribute, two weeks from now we should have a bevy of excellent subject-specific blogs to which we can all point. Please spread the word about THE PUSH!

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You really can get by with a little help from your friends — if you also look beyond your personal to-do list.

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