Ok, so I just spent over an hour trying to find suitable resources for a lesson on ageing and its associated changes in metabolic rate, hormones (including menopause in women, and loss of reproductive capacity) and increases in onset of diseases such as Alzheimers and Cancers, and there appear to be no decent web sites for teaching on such subjects. Maybe this is a gap in the market? There are lots of sites about ageing aimed at people concerned about their own health as they advance in years, but none aimed at educating younger people on the subject.
In the end, I have resorted to the 'old-school' tactic of providing my own library for the lesson, so that my students can do their research from books. Many of us still remember these antiquated means of conveying information by writing or printing words onto pages (that would be paper pages, rather than web-pages).
Luckily I have a whole room full of books upstairs, and have provided a decent selection containing relevant information, and have also thrown in a few random ones, which won't help the students with their research task, but may well provide a talking point pertinent to the wider subject (Human Biology) and hopefully peak their interest in reading.
The world wide web is a marvellous resource, but nothing compares to the smell and feel of a book!
Officially, I class myself as a Freelance Science Education Consultant, but 'Wandering Scientist' somehow sounds more cool!
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This wasn't really part of the plan if I'm honest.... When I was at school, and people asked what I wanted to do with my life, this would not have been the first thing on my list...... That said, neither would it have been the last thing on my list. At the time, I was not aware that there would be possibilities in the future to work in such a flexible way without having a "proper" job.
The purpose of this blog is to act as a vent for my frequent ramblings, to document the successes (and inevitable failures) of my progress starting out on this Freelancing adventure, and possibly to offer some insight to others who may be considering a similar non-conformist career path.
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Monday, 20 June 2011
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Dr D. sez:
ReplyDelete>The world wide web is a marvellous resource, but nothing compares to the smell and feel of a book!<
Most of the kids Dr. D teaches probably have no idea how fortunate they are to be under her tutelage. O! Dr.D! Where were you when I was 17 and studying Biology? (That's rhetorical: you were in another world; one with an actual history.)