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Raising Heretics: The Podcast! Episode 2

Episode 2 of the Raising Heretics: Teaching Kids to Change the World Podcast contains the second half of the introduction, and explores why Data Science Education can teach kids to be rational, ethical, creative, heretical problem solvers. Raising Heretics: Teaching Kids to Change the World Pocast, Episode 2 Raising Heretics, the book, is a blueprint… Continue reading Raising Heretics: The Podcast! Episode 2

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Raising Heretics: The Podcast!

Welcome to Raising Heretics: Teaching Kids to Change the World, The Podcast! Raising Heretics, the book, is a blueprint for an evidence based world, and a radically more engaging and effective education system. What would an evidence based world look like? How can we get there? What’s wrong with the way we teach science and… Continue reading Raising Heretics: The Podcast!

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Walking and Chewing Gum: Modern STEM Education

The current debate between mastery and inquiry based learning misses the most important point: motivation. Working with teachers at all levels, I’ve found that kids who think that STEM is boring, irrelevant, and hard, suddenly engage with those same skills when it’s in the context of something real. Solving an authentic problem means the motivation is built in.