Over Fifty Suggestions of Books For a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Book Club

Some blog followers might be interested in “Over Fifty Suggestions of Books For a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Book Club” [Hake (2011)].

The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: POD’s Linda Serro, in a post “STEM Education Books,” requested suggestions for “STEM Education book titles that might be appropriate for a book club.” PODers Nilson, Nuhfer, Smith, and Nelson suggested a few books and possible sources of books from which I derived 25 book titles. I add 26 more for a total of 51 references. These constitute only a tiny fraction of the books that might be appropriate for a STEM education book club. Others may wish to add their own recommendations.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which
Recognize the Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)

rrhake@earthlink.net
http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake
http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi
http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com
http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake

“People have nowadays . . . got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. Lectures were once useful; but now, when we can all read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.”
Samuel Johnson according to James Boswell (1791)


REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 29 September 2011.]

Boswell, J. 1791. Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, online at http://bit.ly/qfDXPz .

Hake, R.R. 2011. “Over Fifty Suggestions of Books For a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Book Club,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/nO8AIY. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to various discussion lists.

Academic Discussion Lists (ADL’s) vs Social Media #2

Some blog followers might be interested in discussion-list post “Academic Discussion Lists (ADL's) vs Social Media #2” [Hake (2011)].

The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: POD’s Ed Nuhfer complained about requests to move POD discussions to Linked-In. His post drew several responses in support of Academic Discussion Lists (ADL’s) over social media such as Linked-In. Herein I repeat the 11 advantages of ADL’s over social media that were perceptively listed by Gerald Grow (2009) of the JourNet list in his post “The Value Of Email Discussion Lists.”

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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University

Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands

President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which Recognize the Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)

rrhake@earthlink.net

http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake

http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi

http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com

http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake

“It is not enough to observe, experiment, theorize, calculate and communicate; we must also argue, criticize, debate, expound, summarize, and otherwise transform the information that we have obtained individually into reliable, well established, public knowledge.”

John Ziman. 1969. “Information, Communication, Knowledge,” Nature 224: 318-324; abstract online at http://bit.ly/cNPB1d.

REFERENCES [URL's shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 9 May 2011.]

Grow, G. 2009. “The value of email discussion lists,” JourNet post of 14 Nov 2009 08:09:52-0500; online at http://bit.ly/daJ7bp. To access the archives of JOURNET one needs to subscribe :-( , but that takes only a few minutes by clicking on http://bit.ly/cGsot6, clicking on “Subscribe or Unsubscribe,” and then entering one's email address and a password of one’s choosing. I thank Dave Dillard, manager of NetGold for calling my attention to this post. Gerald Grow’s valuable Home Page is at http://bit.ly/iyUaWd - see especially “How to Write Badly” at http://bit.ly/mwYgRj .

Hake, R.R. 2011. “Academic Discussion Lists (ADL’s) vs Social Media #2,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/lN1BH5. Post of 10 May 2011 10:53:29-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are also being distributed to various discussion lists.

Re: The weaknesses of email discussion lists

Some blog followers may be interested in a recent discussion-list post of the above title [Hake (2009a)]. The abstract reads:

ABSTRACT: In response to my previous post "Re: The value of discussion lists" a subscriber wrote to me privately, complaining that his discussion list was "dead as a doornail . . . having everything to do with its being 'open' -- in effect anyone who posts to the list doesn't really know who is being addressed or who gets copies of the postings. . .[so that] . . . the issues discussed are unlikely to be settled on their own merits. . . [but are]. . . instead subject to unpredictable interventions and manipulations of every imaginable sort."

Here I (a) point to two high-traffic lists, POD and Phys-L, as counter examples where at least a few of the issues discussed appear to be settled on their own merits, and (b) enumerate what I consider to be some weaknesses of email discussion lists as given in my listing of "Over Two-Hundred Education & Science Blogs" [Hake (2009b)].

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REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy http://tinyurl.com/create.php.]

Hake, R.R. 2009a. “Re: The weaknesses of email discussion lists,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://tinyurl.com/yz4ao3x. Post of 25 Nov 2009 20:22:25-0800 to AERA-L, JOURNET, & Net-Gold.

Hake, R.R. 2009b. "Over Two-Hundred Education & Science Blogs," 30 March; online at http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/Over200EdSciBlogsU.pdf (2.6 MB). The abstract is online with a provision for comments at http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Blogged. Please ignore the 67 SPAM comments (as of 19 Dec 2009) - a disadvantage of the Blogosphere.