Phoebe's PLJ" began as a project for my Freshman English class when we were reading Daniel Pink's "A Whole New Mind". The purpose of the PLJ or Personal Learning Journal was to blog our thoughts on a selection of Pinks exercises throughout his book. I just recently came across this, today in fact. I was looking up creativity blogs on the internet, looking for some inspiration to do, well, anything. As I was reading through them I realized that creativity blogs are no more than random thoughts and tidbits of a persons creative, spiritual, and emotional journey through time. I have decided to make this PLJ not only a personal learning journal, but also my very own Personal Learning JOURNEY, my version of a creativity blog. With that I shall let the journey begin. No, not begin, resume with the journal as my witness.

1/23/08

Learning is Changing: Science

Science is a hard subject to generalize. It ranges over so many topics, some of which i much prefer to others. This year I am in an Energy Reservation Education or ERE. this class is basically the general 9th grade math class. I am not a big fan of this class, but I work through it anyway. I think the reason the science and math are my less strong subjects is because they don't need empathy, or story. History and English are taught with an empathetic background where as science is taught as simply factual. I can't say that i think my learning has changed thus far this year, but i do think that m learning and ability to learn changes from subject to subject. For instance I am much more interested in the theory of evolution than the different chemicals on the periodic table. This shows just another example of how story is important in my learning.

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