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Showing posts with label Curriculum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curriculum. Show all posts
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Can You Teach the Bible in Public Schools?

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The short answer is yes, you can and should teach the Bible in public schools. The long answer is more nuanced. There are three subjects...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Rote Does A Lot of People A Lot of Good

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Recently I read a forum comment somewhere to the effect that “rote does not do anyone much good.” Ironically, this comment was part of a com...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Preconceived Bias Always Trumps Critical Thinking

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In the last article, I discussed the strange phenomenon that whenever critical thinking and preconceived bias go head to head, dollars to do...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Why Critical Thinking Lessons Do Not Work

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Daniel Kahneman studies thinking. Although the interview* is discussing bias, not critical thinking, the implication is inescapable. ...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Infographics: Sometimes Too Good to be True

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There are some really intriguing infographics on the visual.ly website. However, teachers need to be careful about considering them as te...
Saturday, July 6, 2013

The Relationship Between Memorized Facts and Online Research

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In China, many people believe that the Tiananmen incident is a fabrication perpetrated by Western governments in order to discredit the Chin...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Wrong Questions About Spreadsheet Math

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Spreadsheets are a ubiquitous and necessary tool these days. Students need to learn spreadsheet math. "Our children still spend hu...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Surprise! Kids Value Rote Learning...

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Surprise! Kids Value Rote Learning... ...just not when they are the one expected to memorize knowledge. Have you ever had a child ask you...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Unresolvable “Science” Debate?

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Will the controversy between evolution and creationism ever end? Is it destined to swing forever on the pendulum of public opinion? The en...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Kindergarten Academics Is Not Academic Achievement...

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...no matter what anyone says otherwise. Robert Slavin, creator of the reading program Success For All, and before that, creator of the r...
Friday, February 12, 2010

Characteristics of Japanese Textbooks

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It is the chicken and egg puzzle. Which came first, the teaching philosophy or the textbook? Do teaching methods and philosophy determine ...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Book Review: The Language of God by Dr. Francis Collins

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Book Review: Francis S. Collins The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. 2006. New York: Simon & Schuster, In...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Science for Preschoolers?

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I am shocked, I tell you, shocked. The change in Mr. Hoff’s room, and in a handful of other classrooms like it around the country, stems ...
Thursday, January 7, 2010

Discovery Good, Lecture Good, Too

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Lecture doesn't have to be a dirty 7-letter word. One of the things we are learning about education is that we do not know what we think...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Stand and Deliver? No, Sit Down and Shut Up

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The movie, Stand and Deliver, told the inspirational story of one teacher's success in using Advanced Placement (AP) calculus with his d...
Thursday, December 3, 2009

Algebra in 2nd Grade?

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In February, 2009 a teacher in Montana made EdWeek headlines because she was teaching algebra to second graders and had been doing so for fi...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

“Learning Science vs. Doing Science”

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In March 2009 Texas adopted new standards for science education. High school students are expected to In all fields of science, analyze, e...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

What's an Argument? Bring Back Debate Club

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When I was in high school, there was an active debate club that competed with all the area high schools. If successful, our team could comp...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Western Education has the Wrong Mindset

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Science educators know full well that school textbooks lag at least a generation behind the times. Teachers who do not take the initiative ...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Incidental Oversight or Deliberate Social Engineering

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America is full of sober, responsible people who tried very hard to do the right thing financially. They got their education, got a job, bou...