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Education - Right Question Institute - 0 views

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  • Question Formulation Technique™ (QFT™
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For Students, Why the Question is More Important Than the Answer | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Coming up with the right question involves vigorously thinking through the problem, investigating it from various angles, turning closed questions into open-ended ones and prioritizing which are the most important questions to get at the heart of the matter.
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  • Question Formulation Technique
  • Rule 1: Ask As Many Questions as You Can (Gives License to Ask
  • Groups are working at different pace
  • Students ask for examples
  • Students struggle trying to produce the questions
  • Some students are not participating or one student is producing all the questions
  • Rule 2: Do Not Stop to Discuss, Judge, or Answer Any Question (Creates Safe Space and Protection)
  • Rule 3: Write Down Every Question Exactly as It Is Stated (Levels the Playing Field So All Questions and Voices Are Respected.)
  • Rule 4: Change Any Statement into a Question (Insists on the Discipline of Phrasing, Asking, and Thinking in Questions, Not Statement
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Matt J. Rossano: How the Myth of the Flat-Earth Dogma Started the Religion-Science War - 0 views

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  • Lactantius was a fourth-century pagan convert to Christianity who took particular delight in arguing against pretty much everything any pagan philosopher ever said, including that the earth was round.
  • Cosmas Indicopleustes
  • tealthily misrepresent a few church fathers as flat-earthers (Basil, Chrysostom) and to argue that the non-flat-earthers were a few brave soles swimming against a colossal tide.
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  • rigen, Ambrose, Augustine, Clement, and Aquinas
  • . It was a classic fight of good vs. evil, progress vs. regress, ignorance vs. enlightenment -- just what the papers needed to sell copy
  • There never was a flat earth dogma
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  • They fabricated a false history highlighted by a non-existent dogma and used them to brand religion as unceasingly reactionary, dim-witted, and anti-science.
  • Claiming that science and religion have known only unrelenting warfare betrays one's ignorance of history and possibly one's social/political agenda.
  • tarting a war on false pretenses is nothing new. But when a few nineteenth-century academicians declared a science-vs.-religion war, they did us all a disservice.
  • John W. Draper (1811-188
  • Christianity was currently opposing progress because it has always been an impediment to science, reason, and progress. An especially egregious example of this was the Church's insistence on a flat earth,
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      Lisa Halverson on 21 Aug 12
       
      I like this definition of learning
  • Many seem to hope that class attendance, marginal participation, obedient completion of carefully guided activities, objectified tests, or other questionable trappings of institutionalized "learning" will provide an easier, friendlier substitute for the rigor and discipline of study. As a consequence, the mental exhilaration and quiet confidence that come only through genuine study are replaced by doubt and insecurity
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MIT OpenCourseWare - History - 0 views

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    MIT History courses available online and for free. The MIT History Faculty offers about 70 subjects in the areas of Ancient, North American, European, East Asian, and Middle Eastern history.
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