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Article: Blogs.
- Article from:
- Journal of College Science Teaching
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
- Author:
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Byline: Erica Brownstein and Robert Klein
Blogs are reshaping our political, social, and cultural environment. Education is affected by blogs because of their potential for learning and teaching, and also their risks. This article elaborates a set of rules for evaluating and implementing blogs in teaching college science.
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information." -Winston Churchill
"The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but seeing with new eyes." -Marcel Proust
In the quotations above, Churchill and Proust could have been describing the challenges of ...