Directions for Book Blogging

Welcome to our summer book blog! Unlike most blogs that have one blogger- everyone gets to blog about the book, To Engineer is Human, and share ideas about K-12 engineering education and the "human side" of engineering. To reply to a post, click on Comments at the bottom of the post. To start a new post, click on New Post at the top right. However, to start a new post you have to have a Google account. If you don't want to register on Google, you can send me the text for your post and a title, and I will post it for you.

Who do we have on the blog? Our book blog consists of 16 high school teachers, 1 middle school teacher, 7 elementary teachers, 4 faculty or engineering students from the University of Maine, 3 MMSA staff, and 2 DOE staff. We have a diverse and well-rounded book group which should lead to some interesting conversations. One thing to remember- the most recent post is always at the top of the blog. If you haven't been on for awhile, scroll down and work backwards.

If you start a new post you also have the option of adding photos or other graphics as well as making a hyperlink. Play around with it a bit to get to know how it works. Try a test post- you can always delete it afterwards. Also, you will notice we will build a collection of links listed on the right. Since only the person (Page) with the Google account can add these, if you have any you would like to share, just send them to me at pagekeeley@gmail.com and I will post them for you. This is the first time we have ever tried this as a blog, so we're all getting our feet wet. Don't hesitate to wade right in!

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Mistakes

A couple of quotes from ch 7 that were noteworthy about engineers.  "An engineer learns more from his mistakes." Mistakes are okay as long as we learn from them is one of life's lessons. The other quote was that  an engineer, "..knows the weaknesses of his knowledge." We should never believe that we know it all. I know as a teacher every year I change instructional strategies to find a better way to reach my students. I truly believe that we are never finished with our learning.
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2 comments:

  1. Dawn MarieJuly 25, 2012 at 1:05 PM

    I believe the only constant is change, and life long learning is freeing for the mind and spirit.

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  2. UnknownJuly 27, 2012 at 5:22 PM

    I do a lesson at the beginning of the semester where the students are broken into groups of 3 and have build a molecular model (I don't have enough Lego blocks) as close to the one I made. One student can view the model, the next student listens to what the first student says about the model and the third has to build the model based on what the second person says.

    This is a great way to get the class to talk about proper use of language and good communication as well as team work.

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