
How Science Fuels a Culture of Misinformation
Culture How Science Fuels a Culture of Misinformation We tend to blame the glut of disinformation in science on social media and the news, but the problem often starts with the...
06/17/2022
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Culture How Science Fuels a Culture of Misinformation We tend to blame the glut of disinformation in science on social media and the news, but the problem often starts with the...
06/17/2022
Critical Thinking Science and Medicine Science and the Media Are medical errors really the third most common cause of death in the U.S.? (2019 edition) The claim that medical...
06/11/2022
Ten Health and Wellness Buzzwords Every Skeptic Should Know Tweet The word rhetoric, derived from the Greek noun “rhetor” meaning “speaker,” was once considered the art of...
06/08/2022
Before I went into administration, I got to teach speech for a couple of years (ten years of teaching technology applications) at the middle school where I taught in Texas. In...
06/15/2021
False equivalence is a type of cognitive bias or flawed reasoning style. False equivalency means that you think (or are told) two things should have equal weight in your...
06/08/2021
Welcome to a new issue of “The Educationalist”. This week I want to dive into a topic that we can all relate to, regardless of the discipline we work in, both in our roles as...
06/02/2021
A website’s author may not be its author. References that confer legitimacy may have little to do with the claims they anchor. Signals of credibility like a dot-org domain can...
05/23/2021
Research agrees that the strongest students emerge from homes supportive in the learning process, and below we’ve listed a few ways parents can support students at home. In 8...
04/22/2021
KU Leuven The ySKILLS first year in a nutshell The Youth Skills (ySKILLS) project aims to enhance and maximise long-term positive impact of the ICT environment on multiple...
04/13/2021
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Daniel Roberts hadn’t had a vaccination since he was 6. No boosters, no tetanus shots. His parents taught him inoculations were dangerous, and when the...
04/11/2021
How To Help Your Students Develop A Growth Mindset For professional development around growth mindset, contact TeachThought Professional Development to bring Jackie Gerstein...
04/09/2021
This blog is an excerpt from the manuscript of our forthcoming book, Learning that Transfers, publishing March 2021 “Why do we have to know this?” It’s the age-old question...
07/22/2020