Are you looking for a new approach to engage your students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics? NASA's Do-It-Yourself Podcast activity sets the stage for students to host a show...
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Could be a great class project to summarize daily/weekly/unit concepts in a quick podcast which can be posted to the class website. Get students involved in scripting and recording the summary!
to educators, I ask, if you are not teaching these things in your classes, why are you not?
1. How to predict consequences
The prediction of consequences is part science, part mathematics, and part visualization. It is essentially the ability to create a mental model imaging the sequence of events that would follow, "what would likely happen if...?"
how to look at some text and to understand, in a deep way, what is being asserted (this also applies to audio and video, but grounding yourself in text will transfer relatively easily, if incompletely, to other domains).
3. How to distinguish truth from fiction
Do not simply accept what you are told. Always ask, how can you know that this is true? What evidence would lead you to believe that it is false?
4. How to empathize
this will allow other people to become a surprising source of new knowledge and insight.
5. How to be creative
Sometimes people think that creative ideas spring out of nothing (like the proverbial 'blank page' staring back at the writer) but creativity is in fact the result of using and manipulating your knowledge in certain ways.
creativity involves a transfer of knowledge from one domain to another domain, and sometimes a manipulation of that knowledge.
pattern recognition can be learned
6. How to communicate clearly
7. How to Learn
Learning to learn is the same as learning anything else. It takes practice.
8. How to stay healthy
9. How to value yourself
You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but they are meaningless if you do not feel personally empowered to use them; it's like owning a Lamborghini and not having a driver's license.
10. How to live meaningfully
When you realize you have the power to choose what you are doing, you realize you have the power to choose the consequences. Which means that consequences -- even bad consequences -- are for the most part a matter of choice