A great post by James Somers on how to better teach biology, but with lessons for teaching or learning just about anything. #ScholER 

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I should have loved biology

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A great post by James Somers on how to better teach biology, but with lessons for teaching or learning just about anything. #ScholER  I should have loved biology I should have loved biology  By James Somers  I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names: the Golgi apparatus and the Krebs cycle; mitosis, meiosis; DNA, RNA, mRNA https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology

Sam Mendoza

“How do you develop a physical understanding of biology? I like pictures. One of my favorite books is called The Machinery of Life, by David Goodsell. It’s full of gorgeous hand-drawn illustrations. Here a bacterium’s flagellar motor is shown in context, then zoomed in on in an inset, with a third picture highlighting its functional elements:”

Britney

it should be easier for regular people to create useful illustrations.

Manuel

great essay!  

"I think we also need inspiration. There is a romance in biology, as in any other science, that a movie like Good Will Hunting could bring out. We need heroes. Whoever delivers us from this pandemic in the form of a slam dunk vaccine, or a cheap quick reliable test, should become a household name, not for their own glory but for our kids—a Feynman for them to dream about someday becoming."

great essay!    "I think we also need inspiration. There is a romance in biology, as in any other science, that a movie like Good Will Hunting could bring out. We need heroes. Whoever delivers us from this pandemic in the form of a slam dunk vaccine, or a cheap quick reliable test, should become a household name, not for their own glory but for our kids—a Feynman for them to dream about someday becoming."

Lizbeth 💡

In other words 

“In biology class, biology wasn’t presented as a quest for the secrets of life. The textbooks wrung out the questing. 

We were nowhere acquainted with real biologists, the real questions they had, the real experiments they did to answer them. 

We were just given their conclusions.”

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“Enormous subjects are best approached in thin, deep slices. I discovered this when first learning how to program. The textbooks never worked; it all only started to click when I started to do little projects for myself. The project wasn’t just motivation but an organizing principle, a magnet to arrange the random iron filings I picked up along the way. I’d care to learn about some abstract concept, like “memoization,” because I needed it to solve my problem; and these concepts would lose their abstractness in the light of my example.

Biology is no different. Learning begins with questions. How do embryos differentiate? Why are my eyes blue? How does a hamster turn cheese into muscle? Why does the coronavirus make some people much sicker than others?”
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Goals should inspire and promote intellectual curiosity for seeking truth, not passing an arbitrarily and impractical structured exam

💯% this -  ————— “Enormous subjects are best approached in thin, deep slices. I discovered this when first learning how to program. The textbooks never worked; it all only started to click when I started to do little projects for myself. The project wasn’t just motivation but an organizing principle, a magnet to arrange the random iron filings I picked up along the way. I’d care to learn about some abstract concept, like “memoization,” because I needed it to solve my problem; and these concepts would lose their abstractness in the light of my example.  Biology is no different. Learning begins with questions. How do embryos differentiate? Why are my eyes blue? How does a hamster turn cheese into muscle? Why does the coronavirus make some people much sicker than others?” —————  Goals should inspire and promote intellectual curiosity for seeking truth, not passing an arbitrarily and impractical structured exam

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In other words   “In biology class, biology wasn’t presented as a quest for the secrets of life. The textbooks wrung out the questing.   We were nowhere acquainted with real biologists, the real questions they had, the real experiments they did to answer them.   We were just given their conclusions.”

Sam Mendoza

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