Thoughts on science literacy Science literacy is knowledge of science, sure, but more so, it is understanding of the scientific framework by which people make decisions based on facts. /1

RT @birchlse: 🦀🐝🧠🤖 How should we make decisions when faced with systems of uncertain sentience? My new book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and…

@AgnesCallard You just sparked 🤯 a new era of social epistemology

RT @Culture_Crit: Why did past societies build so much "useless" beauty everywhere — and why did we stop? It might be a measure of a cultu…

@lastpositivist I subscribe to post-manifested-knew-it-in-my-gut epistemology

5 million followers. A more sophisticated thinker would just attack the notion of scientism: the complete faith in the authority of or the enterprise of science. Instead, Owens promotes the complete denial of science. 🤦 and people eat this up.

@eyeslasho Source?

@bernywern Ignorance to what philosophy is, what it does, and what it can lead to.

RT @SteveStuWill: According to biologists, the function of zebras' stripes is to ward off insects. Based on that idea, a team of scientists…

Integrating Loose Parts Play Into Recess

@MushtaqBilalPhD I'd say taking a nap is a sign of sentience.

RT @learningandtheb: "Cornell notes" offer a well-known structure for note-taking and summarizing. Have we got more recent, more useful sy…

@TheAtlantic @lsilverwoman Why does it say by Kieran Setiya?

@GradeScience @bernywern Operating on shaky foundations in the spirit of being practical with our time is probably why education is so watered down. I also think Bernard is a TOK teacher, and it seems useful to challenge undefined concepts such as Peps’ “idea”.

@PepsMccrea Seems to be a deductive view of thinking where one goes from the general concept to partial parts or examples. The other way is inductive thinking, where the particular is considered in how it fits in the general

RT @andyvasily: Today’s conversation is with Daniel Carcillo, two-time Stanley Cup winner with the Chicago Blackha…

RT @s_hall_teach: From 1967-1977 the US government carried out the largest educational research project in history. The results of which…

@CharlesChillFFB Denmark. Koala. Amber.

RT @lifelonglit: Excellent illustration of the misconception of sight words and what this means in terms of teacher/system knowledge and sk…

@MrZachG What will we be doing in 10 years ? Arts & crafts, and robotics? Maybe computational thinking. I think we should teach philosophy.