Today's+Reality

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= Wikis? Blogs? What's the Difference? =

Watch as Kennedy and Nixon debate which one is better.
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Let one of the "digital native" intimidate you . ..
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=== Kathy: In my opinion, although I'm "blown away", all is __ not __ well. Earlier this year I was asked to use a rubric and grade student responses as part of an evaluation of a project about dinosaurs and fossils. It was an interesting experience. What concerns me about the video posted above is that nowhere does it reflect a student "doing science". I discovered when I graded student responses that too many students about her age (7th grade) think that "doing science" is "googling" the "answer". When asked why scientists may get different conclusions based on the same sets of data (and similar questions), too many of them wrote that it depended on the sites that they "googled". After reading thousands of responses, I realized that kids don't understand what scientists DO at all. They think that the job of scientists is to search out the work that other scientists have done. They didn't really seem to get that scientists CREATE new knowledge. What is your opinion? I was also amused that she thinks a gecko is a geicko. Oh, the power of advertising. . .===