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Posts Tagged ‘misconceptions

Questioning Science Education

Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 6, 2008

Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can’t answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowledge — and specifically, what we don’t know about science that we might think we do.   So goes the blurb for the one of the latest talks on TED.  Drori asks [...]

Where does the ‘stuff’ in trees come from?

Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 16, 2007

learner.org is an interesting site which “uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools.” One of the issues they address is the area of misconceptions in Science. This is a wonderful video which asks where does the material that makes up trees come from. College graduates from Harvard and MIT were asked [...]


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