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People like me sometimes are inclined to think that if people had more and better education, they would not believe anti-scientific myths. For example, they they were told that the Sun is in a cooling cycle, they would not be inclined to blame Sun cycles for global warming. Actual evidence, however, suggests that people continue to believe myths despite the scientific evidence. Myths provide explanations, and merely debunking a myth leaves a gap in that explanation. In some cases, the provision of evidence contrary to the myth can actually strengthen their belief in the myth. Why do I raise this? Education is not a magic remedy for misinformation. See also the Debunking Handbook (PDF) by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky. -- OLDaily, April 18

Cool teacher remixes pop music with educational lyrics for teaching. Looks like transformational to me.

shared in Jenny's session

"GREENE: And John, you wrote an introduction to this issue of Granta, and you said that literature asserts that the world, as it is imagined, is every bit as important as the world as it exists. Is that really the case? FREEMAN: Yeah, because if we only agreed with what the world is, there would never be the future. The world, as it will be, is partly imagined, and it's part entropy. And if we believe that we can have some sense of control of our destinies - whether it's how we educate children or how we write our own stories - part of that has to do with the imagining, and novels help us imagine more beautifully, I think, than almost any other art form. "

" The right to be teachers In an online environment, teachers no longer need to be sole authority figures but instead should share responsibility with learners at almost every turn. Students can participate and shape one another's learning through peer interaction, new content, enhancement of learning materials and by forming virtual and real-world networks. Students have the right to engaged participation in the construction of their own learning. Students are makers, doers, thinkers, contributors, not just passive recipients of someone else's lecture notes or methods. They are critical contributors to their disciplines, fields, and to the larger enterprise of education."

Mindomo -- multimedia mindmap

developing a photographer's eye "two-thirds of an artist's education should be in history and literature. If you don't have it, you will miss the shot.""

Badges????

Glogster prez mode

Velicia recommends Jim Burke's English Companion for lots of great practical ideas. Thanks, Velicia!

803861337 : Watching Bill Nye the Science Guy as a kid didn't get me credit either, but it was still valuable . . .

Three "ages" of learning -- grammar, dialectic, rhetoric. Raises good questions . . .

Personal Reflective Writing? Just don't stop there. Make the move to Critical Reflection.

What a great storyteller!

Gotta check this out! Think of possibiiities!

Cool tool for cartoons

"data across the curriculum" will become the new "writing across the curriculum" -- intro to data literacy and a new app for collaborative problem solving. Issues of privacy abound. . .