Tag Archives: science education
The news exists to inform, not to educate
I’d like to highlight a letter published in Science on January 2. I have many points of disagreement with it but I’d also like others to read and reflect on it, especially if they’re (you’re) also going to disagree with my reading. … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Scicomm
Tagged Carl Sagan, COVID-19 pandemic, education, science communication, science education, science journalism
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The news exists to inform, not to educate
I’d like to highlight a letter published in Science on January 2. I have many points of disagreement with it but I’d also like others to read and reflect on it, especially if they’re (you’re) also going to disagree with my reading. … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Scicomm, Uncategorized
Tagged Carl Sagan, COVID-19 pandemic, science communication, science education, science journalism
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What can science education do, and what can it not?
On September 29, 2021, The Third Eye published an interview with Milind Sohoni, a teacher at the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas and at IIT Bombay. (Thanks to @labhopping for bringing it into my feed.) I found it … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Culture, Science
Tagged Anna University, Big Science, class mobility, India-based Neutrino Observatory, Jacques Ellul, Milind Sohoni, science education, social science, spinoff technologies, The Technological Society, The Third Eye
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