tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post4249625445678707024..comments2024-03-15T03:17:53.587-04:00Comments on Science teacher: Trust me, I'm a science teacherdoylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-66707158410986990502011-04-08T13:41:53.006-04:002011-04-08T13:41:53.006-04:00Much appreciated.Much appreciated.Sue VanHattumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10237941346154683902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-27842328973519104482011-04-08T06:36:21.086-04:002011-04-08T06:36:21.086-04:00Dear Katherine,
Beats me--until my kids learn how...Dear Katherine,<br /><br />Beats me--until my kids learn how to see, I think computers should not be in their lives.<br /><br />Not a popular opinion.<br /><br /><br />Dear Sue,<br /><br />That word has been sitting heavily here--I've had long discussions with a couple of people, trying to grasp its meaning today.<br /><br />It's a word I do not allow in my classroom--it's a hateful word, or so I thought.<br /><br />I listened to much of the the Google talk by the xkcd guy, and I'm listening to you.<br /><br />And you're right. So I'm replacing it.doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-32925879768136737642011-04-07T23:53:09.855-04:002011-04-07T23:53:09.855-04:00Dang, two of my favorite sweet bloggers used '...Dang, two of my favorite sweet bloggers used 'bitch' in their posts this week. I stop using that word decades ago - too sexist to be useful to me.Sue VanHattumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10237941346154683902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-85254789932626365322011-04-07T20:49:28.703-04:002011-04-07T20:49:28.703-04:00Science is observing. There seems to be a big pu...Science is observing. There seems to be a big push to teach via simulation. Why would any child with a sense of wonder believe what they see on a monitor? A computer can be programmed to show anything - look at movies and games. Some chem topics can be visualized using those models but only after making observations that need explaining.<br /><br />Loved the XKCD including the mouseover for that strip. I could go off on a whole other tangent about science news.Kathryn Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16757414380685368592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-39299960081133834972011-04-07T19:29:14.264-04:002011-04-07T19:29:14.264-04:00Randall Munroe (author of xkcd) spoke at Google a ...Randall Munroe (author of xkcd) spoke at Google a few years ago and actually discussed (among other things) the use of the word "bitches." In summary, many young people consider it a gender-neutral term these days.<br /><br />Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15963291130980578200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-13308296946963379022011-04-07T14:09:46.483-04:002011-04-07T14:09:46.483-04:00xkcd link was great. The bbc has a test on probabi...xkcd link was great. The bbc has a test on probability that you might like<br />https://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/risk/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com