Teach science and critical thinking skills with Public Library of Science (PLoS) Blogs
October 6, 2010
Part of our job as teachers is to help students think critically about the massive amounts of information that they receive on a daily basis. Also critical is helping students understand diverse perspectives and bias. At Public Library of Science Blogs, whether you are a science or a language arts teacher, you will find a tool to use to help prepare your students in this way.
PLoS Blogs is a mixture of independent science and medicine bloggers (who could be either journalists passionate about science, or scientists passionate about writing), and the PLoS’s own editorial staff. In this way, many diverse perspectives and writing styles are represented through the various weblogs. Some of the more intriguing blog titles presented in the PLoS Blogosphere are “Gobbeldygook,” written by a medical doctor and cancer researchers, and “Speakeasy Science,” written by a Pulitzer-prize winning science writer and journalism professor.
