In Episode 5, Science is Solved, we look at the problems with both academia and science education in schools, and explore how they contribute to problems with the public perception of science. How can we teach science as a way of understanding the world, rather than as a matter of facts and known processes?
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Raising Heretics: Episode 4
Imagine, for a moment, a society driven by evidence. By data. A society that uses science, reason, and compassion to figure out the way forward. How would that be different from the world we see today?
Raising Heretics: The Podcast! Episode 3: Who’s in Charge?
Who runs the world? Not girls. Increasingly it's tech entrepreneurs and data scientists.
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
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.