"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense." - Carl Sagan
Phase of the Moon Today: Waxing Crescent 3% - cloudy no Moon observing today
It is amazing to hear all the stories of students "taking the media as gospels." Why is it that students or anyone for that matter, don't question what they see, read or hear anymore? With so much information available at our fingertips (keyboard) ie. Internet it is disheartening to see this generation willing to accept all that mass media is pushing on us. Do students not understand that these corporate media conglomerates have their own agenda? I'm reminded about the old cliche: Knowledge is power, arm yourself - but we need to be careful as to where our knowledge comes from. Are the textbooks right? Who was the publisher and do they have an agenda of their own? How many rural schools have teachers that are not science majors teaching science? What if they are teaching it wrong? Where doe sthe cycle end? I think current teaching practices need to change - instead of "feeding" information to our students we need to force them to "find" this information on their own....force them to think...
Phase of the Moon Today: Waxing Crescent 3% - cloudy no Moon observing today
It is amazing to hear all the stories of students "taking the media as gospels." Why is it that students or anyone for that matter, don't question what they see, read or hear anymore? With so much information available at our fingertips (keyboard) ie. Internet it is disheartening to see this generation willing to accept all that mass media is pushing on us. Do students not understand that these corporate media conglomerates have their own agenda? I'm reminded about the old cliche: Knowledge is power, arm yourself - but we need to be careful as to where our knowledge comes from. Are the textbooks right? Who was the publisher and do they have an agenda of their own? How many rural schools have teachers that are not science majors teaching science? What if they are teaching it wrong? Where doe sthe cycle end? I think current teaching practices need to change - instead of "feeding" information to our students we need to force them to "find" this information on their own....force them to think...
Here is an interesting and humourous link to common misconceptions of students and people alike: Misconceptions
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