Max Leung
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I think this woman has the right idea:
A Radical Formula for Teaching Science
Ok, it isn't really all that radical if you're used to reading popular science books (many of which are absolutely outstanding, like Carl Zimmer's Parasite Rex or anything by Carl Sagan), but for use in classrooms, it is!
Wow, science is more than just memorizing a bunch of meaningless facts? Whodathunkit?
A Radical Formula for Teaching Science
Ok, it isn't really all that radical if you're used to reading popular science books (many of which are absolutely outstanding, like Carl Zimmer's Parasite Rex or anything by Carl Sagan), but for use in classrooms, it is!
Wow, science is more than just memorizing a bunch of meaningless facts? Whodathunkit?
"{Text}Books are written by committees. They have no literary merit, no voice, no style, no charm," he said. "They are focused almost exclusively on facts, and since each highly paid consultant must contribute his or her iota, they are much, much too fat. The result is that children learn sophisticated, though disconnected, factoids for next week's test, fail to relate it to anything else they have learned, spew it out on the test and then utterly forget it."Ain't that the truth. I learned next to nothing about science in school. The only reason I knew anything at all was because I was fascinated with spaceships from all those crazy space simulation videogames I played when I was a kid.