It can be hard to weed through the myriad of webpages to find quality content on the internet. Social media tends to value clickable content over quality content and so is an unreliable source for solid science backed information. This article will go over some of the teaching blogs that teachers can go for reliable teaching and science information to keep their classrooms up to date with the latest research.
Many of these teaching blogs will have valuable information for teachers, but Lab to Class is the best website for teachers to follow to keep themselves up to date as every article is based on current neuroscience research and written by teachers for teachers.
Teaching Blogs that Teachers Should Bookmark
- Neuroscience News
- Edutopia
- e School News
- The Learning Scientists
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Neuroscience News is a great source of information for teachers. While content is not explicitly written for teachers like Lab to Class, it publishes on many important neuroscience topics for teachers and writes about them in a way that anyone can understand.
It was founded in 2001 by Erik Driscoll, a neuroscientist who specialized in electrophysiology and synaptic plasticity. Synaptic plasticity is a vital base of how the brain restructures itself during learning and so his background lends itself to many posts on childhood development and learning.
Edutopia is a fantastic resource written specifically by teachers for teachers. While they don’t always back up their points by neuroscience research, it is clear that the information is high quality and based on years of practical classroom experience. Teachers wanting to verify the quality of the writing can always read the author bios linked to each post and see the experience base of the author.
Edutopia was founded in 1991 by none other than George Lucas. Lucas has spent a great deal of time and money developing education foundations such as Lucas Education Research and so clearly has a passion to give teachers a place to learn and grow.
e School News is a website focused on learning and technology. Content is education focused through the lens of how technology brings people together. It includes resources, research, and guides that are useful for teachers and administrators alike.
Started in 1998, the nearly 25 years of expertise and team of varied experts allows the site to have a broad base of content that can help teachers and administrators make intelligent decisions on how to update their classrooms with the latest technology.
The Learning Scientists is a website dedicated to, as it’s name implies, the science of learning. The articles are well written, clear and they cite their research sources clearly for teachers who want to do further digging.
The team of main contributors to the site are all PhD level researchers in various aspects of the science of learning. The website not only contains articles on research, but contains other practical resources that teachers can download and use in their classrooms as well.
The Cognitive Neuroscience Society Blog is a blog dedicated to investigating cognition research and keeping its readers up to date on topics ranging from psychology to computation to neuroscience. The articles may often appear more business oriented, but despite their use of business terminology, teachers and administrators can definitely still use the research simply by changing the business terms into terms like “teacher” and “student” instead of “trainees” and “superiors”.
While the blog itself has only been being published since 2012, the society has been involved in research since 1993. It involves experts in neuroscience and other related disciplines from all over the world to give their readers a clear scope of research efforts across the globe.
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