Over Two-Hundred Education & Science Blogs * † - Department of ...

Michael ARRINGTON (“I majored in economics . . . [at Claremont McKenna]. . . I went
straight from college to law school at Stanford in 1992, and graduated in 1995. . . . In September
2007, I was named one of the 25 most influential people on the web) & Erick Schonfeld (“. . .has
been covering startups and technology news for 14 years.. . . He appears regularly on CNBC,
CNN, and NY1, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Schonfeld graduated magna
cum laude from Cornell University in 1993”) – TechCrunch, “a weblog dedicated to obsessively
profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new
companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or
cultural) on the new web space.”): [TA=15,996] [BR=10].
*James ATHERTON [“Semi-retired teacher educator and educational developer, in further
education and the university sector, moderately well-educated (degrees in European Studies,
Religious Studies, and Education, Ph.D in Education)”] - Recent Reflection,
reflections and commentary on teaching and learning issues, from practice to theory and back
again. Sympathetically sceptical about e-learning and over-use of technology
[TA=5] [BR=??].
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: [TA=??] [BR=??].
Jason R. ATWOOD (“. . . a doctoral student at U.C. Berkeley with research interests in the fields
of psychology and education. This blog is a forum to share some of my thoughts and the news
related to brain and exercise science.”) – Playthink, exercising the mind and the body
[TA=9] [BR=??].
Dave BACON (“. . . .a theoretical ski bum who is also an assistant research professor at the
University of Washington in Seattle. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific
passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond. . .”) – The
Quantum Pontiff: [TA=75] [BR=??].
Eric BACON, Gina Barreca, Mark Bauerlein, Marc Bousquet, Kevin Carey, Laurie Fendrich,
John L. Jackson, Jr., Stan Katz, Graham Spanier (see their mini-bios in the right-hand column at
) – Brainstorm, Lives of the mind:
[TA=??][BR=??]. [See especially Kevin Carey’s post
“Burden of Proof” at and
my response at .]
Eric BAUMGARTNER (Co-founder and lead designer at Inquirium
; participated in the work of the “Design-based Research
Collective” ; 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 [TA=??][BR=??].
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