About other blogs ...... on SPED!!

Hello to all phloggers! so sorry for posting this late in the week.  My technological life was interrupted by computer-modem-technical-difficulties.  I want to thank you all for the wonderful time you took to research some of the blogs on education.   As I started this assignment, I wanted to find blogs specific to two subject areas; art history and special education.  As a student, for the last 10 years, while doing my masters and Ph.D. coursework in Art History, I would have benefited from looking at blogs on the subject.  I think I only came across one or two that truly helped me.  I noticed from your posts that more material has been added and the quality has increased as well. Now as a teacher for APS and as a student in this great program I find it very refreshing and a true privilege to be able to use this technology for research and development of class assignments.  I still feel that I am not very familiar with navigating the blog universe and I may not be searching  

The first blog that I came across is a little confusing because the blog is within a webpage.  In a way, the blog supplements the content of this site that is devoted to various aspects of gifted teaching. I found it more conducive for the purposes of the work that I am doing now to focus my search on special education blogs that were specific to gifted education.   I have a strong interest in pursuing a specialization in SPED, specific to a category that is defined as twice gifted.    

http://resources.prufrock.com/GiftedEducationBlog/tabid/56/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/483/Default.aspx.

This is another site that I found. It is a blog that provides articles and different points of view concerning teaching styles and different teaching environments.   

http://giftedexchange.blogspot.com/

Last, this is a blog that is very fun and useful for organization ideas in the classroom.

http://www.teachingblogaddict.com/search/label/classroom%20organization

First Post- About the fundamental purpose of education

Hello everyone on the forum!  what a great experience to be able to share thoughts and ideas concerning this contested field that is continuously evolving, changing and adapting to us humans.  I pondered about the first question posted on the handout we received Tuesday.  So as for education...  well...my response mechanisms were telling me that education is in a sense a structure and a backbone of an individual and a collective.  Its main purpose, in my very biased and personal experience, is to soften and light a journey through life.  Always or most of the time, education seems to be a well intended concept.  Whether a provider of good results or bad ones, educational guidelines want to share a canon of conduct and groups of behaviors that will result in the betterment of a greater social project.  In this sense, sometimes education will fail to serve the individual while it enhances a group's purpose.  The process of socialization seems integral to the process and application of principles in any given education philosophy.  By its very nature, education is part of a social construction and thus, I find it very difficult to take away the interactive quality of human participation in the creation of the very many forms of educational philosophies.