{"id":2406,"date":"2019-06-15T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T14:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2019-06-15T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T14:33:12","slug":"inspiring-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/inspiring-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Finspiredtoeducate.net%2Finspiredtoeducate%2Finspiring-curiosity%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"606\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20170806_193816-1024x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20170806_193816-1024x606.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20170806_193816-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20170806_193816-768x454.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We initially started this blog in 2012. I was a brand new college professor and this platform became an opportunity for my husband and I to share our thoughts and ideas on education and technology. We took the conversations that we had at the dinner table and put them into this public forum. It was a project that we could share. The last time I posted was in 2014, I had just finished my first year in a tenure track position and was getting ready for the arrival of our third baby. It\u2019s true what they say, three is the hardest number of kids. The long and the short of it is that life has been incredibly busy over the last five years. While Michael has continued to maintain the blog, I have struggled with juggling parenting and full time teaching. Throw in an interstate move, a new job, and some extra teaching jobs on the side, and I just did not have the bandwidth to write. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things are beginning to settle down a bit (I hope) and I\nfeel the need to start contributing again. Two years ago I started my current\nposition at an awesome institution dedicated to high quality education. They\ninvest heavily in faculty development and provide plenty of opportunities for\nme to hone my craft as a teacher. I have learned so much and I want to share\nthose ideas with others, so here I am, back in the blogosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael got super excited the other day when I told him that\nI wanted to start writing again. For him, this blog has been a labor of love.\nWe sat down over breakfast, before the kids got up, and talked about the\ndirections we wanted to take things. I am a biology professor and he is a\ncomputer programmer. We both naturally lean towards topics in STEM, but we don\u2019t\nwant to limit ourselves to that. We tossed around some ideas, and came up with\nour new catch phrase:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Inspiring Curiosity through Creative\nProjects and Exploration<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As both a teacher and a parent, it is my hope that I can\ninspire people to get excited about learning. One of my biggest frustrations is\nwhen I encounter a student that sees my class as an obligation for getting a\ndegree and not an opportunity to learn new things. I want to tap in to people\u2019s\nnatural curiosity. &nbsp;With curiosity comes\njoy in learning and discovery. I want to help people to find awe and wonder in\nthe world around them. I want to use this blog and social media channels to\nthis end. In this world of fear, suspicion and tribalism, I want to encourage\nothers to think outside of themselves and open themselves up to new ideas and\nperspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not sure where this all will lead, but I will leave you with this video that encompasses what I am hoping to achieve. It is of a student seeing <em>Euglena <\/em>(a microscopic, single celled creature) under the microscope for the first time. The first voice you will hear will be mine, followed by my student\u2019s. I love that I captured this moment, because you can just hear her joy in her laughter. It is more moments like these that I seek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Discovering Euglena\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H6tvwoEz6OY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Finspiredtoeducate.net%2Finspiredtoeducate%2Finspiring-curiosity%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We initially started this blog in 2012. 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