AERA-L: Politics and Policy in Education Forum
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ABSTRACT: In posts on PhysLrnR and the Learning Sciences and
Educational Technology Group, Doug Holton listed 12 examples of
people who maintain blogs of possible interest to education
researchers. In this post I list expanded versions of the
Holton-referenced blogs and give information on 20 others to yield a
list of thirty-two education blogs that provide a widow into the vast
educational blogosphere.
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Doug Holton (2007), in a PhysLnrR post of 7 Aug 2007 titled "Re:
Warning: your posts can be googled," wrote:
"I've enjoyed reading posts [on PhysLrnR] for many years. I might
also recommend some people here consider sharing their thoughts on a
weblog (blog), just to give some balance to the information out
there. As they say if it is not on Google, it doesn't exist."
Doug then gave 6 examples of education professionals who maintain
blogs in areas such as the learning sciences and science education.
More recently, Holton (2008) in a Learning Sciences and Educational
Technology Group post of 5 November, gave 6 more examples.
For some commentaries on the pros and cons of blogging see e.g.,
"Scholars Who Blog: The soapbox of the digital age draws a crowd of
academics" [Glenn (2003)]; "Serious Bloggers" Rice (2006)]; and
"Self-Segregation or Deliberation? Blog Readership, Participation,
and Polarization in American Politics" [Farrell et al. (2008].
In the following I list expanded versions of the above
Holton-referenced 12 blogs and give information on 20 others to
provide:
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THIRTY-TWO EDUCATION BLOGS: A WINDOW INTO THE VAST EDUCATIONAL
BLOGOSPHERE [in order of blogger's last name; one asterisk *
indicates expanded version of Blog referenced by Holton (2007); two
asterisks ** indicate expanded version of Blog referenced by Holton
(2008a)]:
*Leslie Atkins (Assistant Professor of Physics, California State
University, Chico) - Science Thinking Summaries, quotes and thoughts
on articles and talks in science education, physics education, and
scientific inquiry. Particular interests in discourse and analogy in
science classrooms: <http://sciencethinking.blogspot.com/>
*Eric Baumgartner (Co-founder and lead designer at Inquirium
<http://www.inquirium.net/>; participated in the work of the
"Design-based Research Collective"
<http://www.designbasedresearch.org/>; Matthew Brown (former teacher
at both the high school and middle school levels; Ben Loh (his
research focuses on the design of software that promotes reflective
thinking through the use of visual information tools). The above
three are all directors of Inquirium and hold PhD's from Northwestern
University's Learning Sciences program - InqBlot Inquirium on
Learning, Technology, and Design: science education
<http://inquirium.net/blog/>
*Philip Bell (Associate Professor of the Learning Sciences,
University of Washington) - How We Learn: Research, News &
Perspectives; provides a stream of information on how people learn.
The focus is on cognitive, sociocultural, developmental, and
neurobiological research and related news:
<http://how-we-learn.blogspot.com/>
Scott Berkun (essayist <http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/> and
author of two bestselling books, "Making things happen"
<http://www.scottberkun.com/making-things-happen/? and "The Myths of
Innovation <http://tinyurl.com/2tufac>) - management and creative
thinking: <http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/>
**Stephanie Chasteen (post doc in Univ. of Colorado physics education
research group) - the intersection of science, education,
communication, and me: <http://sciencegeekgirl.wordpress.com/>
Deirdre (Teacher in Saskatchewan, Canada) - Active Leaning Blog
Carnival, an aggregator of the best current articles about engaging
students in learning: <http://activelearningcarnival.blogspot.com/>
Sherman Dorn (editor of "Education Policy Analysis Archives"
<http://epaa.asu.edu/> and list manager of AERA-L
<http://listserv.aera.net/archives/aera-l.html>) - Work to understand
how schools have been social institutions:
<http://www.shermandorn.com/>
David Eubanks (Interim Director, Center for Teaching Excellence at
the Univ. of Maryland) - Higher Ed: assessing the elephant:
<http://highered.blogspot.com/>
**Dolores Fidishun (Head Librarian - Penn State Great Valley School
of Graduate Professional Studies Library) - Dolores' List of CFPs
(Call For Papers)"This blog shares calls for papers and presentations
in the disciplines of Library Science, Information Science,
Instructional Design and Technology, Education, including Adult
Education, and Women's and Gender Studies. Other calls may be listed
that relate in some way to the above disciplines. It is also a place
to find advice about writing, publishing and presenting. To request
that your call for papers or presentation be added, send it to
<[log in to unmask]":
<http://www.personal.psu.edu/dxf19/blogs/dolores_list_of_cfps/>
Steve Gilbert (Founder of the TLT-SWG (Teaching, Learning,
Technology- S.W. Gilbert Group) and Steve Ehrmann (director of the
Flashlight Program <http://www.tltgroup.org/flashlightP.htm> on
assessment and evaluation) (<http://www.tltgroup.org/> - extending
their TLT-SWG group into the 21st Century:
<http://tlt-swg.blogspot.com/>
Michael Paul Goldenberg (mathematics educator) - Rational Mathematics
Education, "an island of rationality in the insanity of the math
wars": <http://rationalmathed.blogspot.com/>
Lisa Neal Gualtieri (editor of eLearn magazine
<http://www.elearnmag.org/index.cfm> -The eLearn Blog:
<http://blog.acm.org/elearn/>
*Mark Guzdial (focuses "on using lessons from learning sciences and
educational technology for teaching about computing,"- computer
science education: <http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/id/A3W4CUXPE1WFNF>
Richard Hake (Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University) -
Hake'sEdStuff: <http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com/>
Doug Holton (Dept. of Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences,
Utah State University) - EdTechDev, developing educational
technology: <http://edtechdev.blogspot.com/>
Albert Ip (IT Administrator) - Random Walk in Learning
<http://elearningrandomwalk.blogspot.com>
John Lombardi (President and Professor of History, Louisiana State
University System) - Reality Check:
<http://www.insidehighered.com/views/blogs/reality_check>.
**Lissa Lord (Reference Librarian at the University of Kansas,
Edwards Campus, Regents Center Library in Overland Park, Kansas ) -
Dissertation Research, "We Are About Research, Resources, Reference,
Online Expertise, Writing and Skill to Support Our Students in the
Fulfillment of Their Educational Goals":
<http://dissertationresearch.blogspot.com/>
Scott McLemee (frequent contributor to "Inside Higher Ed"
<http://www.insidehighered.com/> - on books, ideas & trash-culture
ephemera: <http://www.artsjournal.com/quickstudy/>
**Reidar Mosvold (Associate Professor in Mathematics Education at
University of Stavanger, Norway) - Mathematics Education Research
Blog, A researcher's attempt to follow his field:
<http://mathedresearch.blogspot.com/>
Peggy - Women in Science, past, present, and future:
<http://sciencewomen.blogspot.com/>
Rick Reis (manager of the Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List
<http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/index.shtml> ) - Tomorrow's
Professor Blog, a partnership between MIT and Stanford to create a
forum for comments and discussion about articles from the Tomorrow's
Professor Mailing List and about general issues concerning higher
education: <http://amps-tools.mit.edu/tomprofblog/>
Robert Runte (Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge, Canada)
- on popular culture, education, and life:
<http://runte.blogspot.com/>
*Roger Schank, Gary Stager, Ken Goodman, Dan Kinnaman, Michael Paul
Goldenberg, and others - The Pulse from "District Administration,"
Education's Place for Debate:
<http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/>
Mano Singham (theoretical physicist and Director of Case's University
Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education) - Thoughts on
science, history and philosophy of science, religion, politics, the
media, education, learning, books, and films:
<http://blog.case.edu/mxs24/>
Ken Smith (English Department at Indiana University South Bend ) -
Weblogs in Higher Education, publishes on blogs, wikis, podcasts,
teaching, and related topics: <http://www.mchron.net/site/edublog.php>
Margaret Soltan (English Department at George Washington University)
- University Diaries, a professor of English describes American life
with the aim to change things:
<http://www.insidehighered.com/views/blogs/university_diaries>
**Gerry Stahl (Associate Professor, College of Information Science &
Technology, Drexel University) - CSCL Community, Latest News About
Research On Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL):
<http://cscl-community.blogspot.com/>
Tom Swanson ("a physicist, working at the US Naval Observatory, doing
atomic-physics things related to timekeeping") - Swans on Tea
"Physics, tech and humor. Because science and learning are cool, and
life's too short not to laugh":
<http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/>
*David Thornburg ("named by Technology and Learning magazine as one
of the top ten most influential people in the field of educational
technology in the past twenty years") - technology and education:
<http://thornburgcenter.blogspot.com/>
Jan Visser (a physicist now developing the Learning Development
Institute (LDI), "a networked learning community devoted to
excellence in the transdisciplinary research of learning and the
development of its conditions" <http://www.learndev.org>:
<http://jvisser-ldi.blogspot.com/>
**Michael Wittmann (Associate Professor of Physics, Univ. of Maine) -
physics education research: <http://perticles.blogspot.com/>
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands.
<[log in to unmask]>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi/>
<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com/>
"A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I've got
the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after. "
Nicholas Carr (2008)
REFERENCES
Carr, N. 2008. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Atlantic Monthly,
July/August, online at
<http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google>.
Farrell, H, E. Lawrence, & J. Sides. 2008. "Self-Segregation or
Deliberation? Blog Readership,
Participation, and Polarization in American Politics," draft under
preparation for journal submission; online at
<http://www.themonkeycage.org/blogpaper.pdf> (744 kB).
Glenn, D. 2003. "Scholars Who Blog: The soapbox of the digital age
draws a crowd of academics," Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 June;
online at <http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i39/39a01401.htm>.
Holton, D. 2007."Re: Warning: your posts can be googled," PhysLrnR post of
7 Aug 2007 23:54:02-0600; online to subscribers on the PhysLrnR
archives at <http://tinyurl.com/64vcyd>. To access the archives of
PhysLnR one needs to subscribe, but that takes only a few minutes by
clicking on <http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/physlrnr.html>
and then clicking on "Join or leave the list (or change settings)."
If you're busy, then subscribe using the "NOMAIL" option under
"Miscellaneous." Then, as a subscriber, you may access the archives
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Holton, D. 2008a. "Research Blogs," Learning Sciences and Educational
Technology Group
<http://groups.google.com/group/learning-sciences?hl=en> post of 5
November, online at <http://tinyurl.com/6z2w36>.
Holton, D. 2008b. OPML file with a list of RSS feeds for various
research journals related to education, psychology, and technology:
online at <http://itls.usu.edu/wiki/journals>. OPML evidently means
"Outline Processor Markup Language (XML-based format for exchange of
outline-structured information)."
Rice, J. 2006. "Serious Bloggers," Inside Higher Ed, 20 February;
online at <http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/02/20/rice>.
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