Popular IAE Blog Entries

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Most Popular Entries 3 The IAE Initiatives and Resources 4 Author

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Introduction

David Moursund is running an Information Age Education Blog that posted its first entry August 22, 2010.

The purpose of David Moursund’s IAE Blog is to encourage and facilitate people working to improve informal and formal education at all levels and in all discipline areas. A unifying theme is that education empowers the educated and improves their quality of life. Many of the entries build on future educational implications of current news items and events. Readers are encouraged to add comments.

If you are involved in teaching preservice or inservice teachers, one of the things you will likely want them to learn about in using blogs as a source of information and making comments in a blog. Comments should be scholarly and rooted in careful thinking. They should contribute to the topic being discussed.

Thus, for example, a comment "The blog entry sucks" is not particularly useful. Give a careful statement about what is wrong with the entry. Back up the disagreement with solid evidence.

Preservice and inservice teachers should be learning to understand both sides of major educational issues. One way to practice this endeavor is to assign your preservice and inservice teachers the task of finding a blog entry they support and adding a supportive comment, and finding a blog entry that they disagree with and explaining why they disagree.

Most Popular Entries

The data given below is from 4/20/2012. At that time the site had a total of about 135 thousand hits. (The mean is about 665 hits per entry for the 210 entries.)

1. Brain science and cognitive neuroscience for children and teachers. (Publication Date: 1/29/2011) (3,606 hits)
2. Test anxiety and use of non-test methods to measure learning. (Publication Date: 12/11/2010) (3,107 hits)
3. Research on how exercise improves brain functioning. (Publication Date: 11/24/2010) (2,382 hits)
4. Pithy Quotes can be considered as very short stories. (Publication Date: 9/17/2010) (1,810 hits)
5. Detailed syllabus for a grades 1-8 teacher education course on math maturity. (Publication Date: 9/4/2010) (1,801 hits)
6. things brain science tells us about teaching and learning arithmetic. (Publication Date: 10/22/2010) (1,631 hits)
7. An intact human brain is naturally curious and creative. (Publication Date: 12/24/2010) (1,601 hits)
8. Computational Thinking versus Computer and Information Science. (Publication Date: 12/12/2010) (1,565 hits)
9. The math brain: Keith Devlin’s chapter in the book “Mind, Brain, and Education.” (Publication Date: 10/21/2010) (1,511 hits)
10. A serious problem situation with math word problems. (Publication Date: 12/2/2010) (1,457 hits).

The IAE Initiatives and Resources

• Most recently published free IAE books. A number of older books are also available for free download.

• Free IAE Newsletter published twice a month.

• Free IAE Blog.

• Free IAE Wiki.

• Other Free IAE documents.

• A new major (and free) IAE initiative on math tutoring.

Would you like to become an IAE volunteer? There are many different ways that volunteers can contribute to the above ongoing work and help lead IAE in new directions relevant to improving education at all levels and throughout the world. If you are interested, please contact David Moursund: moursund@uoregon.edu.

Author

This Page was developed by David Moursund.