it’s time for me to call it a summer and head back to school. as my thoughts turn to my classroom, i’m humbled by the importance of the work we teachers do. yet, i’m also proud of the magic that…
manufacturing reality: crash course: check yourself with lateral reading (14 min video) crash course: using wikipedia (14 min video) think you can spot fake news? take this quiz. fareed zakaria what in the world: fake news – youtube (fake video…
some fundamentals: a good start for any citizen or journalist to begin exploring… jefferson newspapers v. government fact or fiction: 8 teded & tedtalks (fake news, filter bubbles, bad science & stats) democracy depends on a free press 6 principals…
what do we mean by “i know”? claims to knowledge knowledge and belief – mini-assignment the basis for knowledge (man is the measure, abel ch. 2) what’s up with this “justified true belief” stuff? belief & truth – justified true…
welcome! welcome to our senior seminar page. i hope you’re ready to think differently about… well… just about everything! we’re going to ask, “what do we know & how do we know that we know it?” essentially, we’re going to…
intro in our quest to “know”, we’ve established systems & we must scrutinize those systems. here’s a good way to begin asking questions of these various disciplines… questions for the disciplines-t4 role of questions in critical thinking mathematics readings: mathematics…
welcome! welcome to our english 10 page. here you’ll find some of the resources needed to navigate the wondrous waters of our english class. we’ll dig deep into the literary landscape and our own writing as we explore the fascinating…
to get at the heart of motivations in media messages, we have to first figure out who’s speaking to us, what they care about (ahem… profit motives…. ahem….. show me the money!) ownership: these 6 corporations control 90% of the…
the recent corporate marriage of general mills and pillsbury combined with a couple of strange encounters with household products got me to thinking about the world of advertising and marketing, specifically, and about the world of work, generally. now that…
“point and click” i recently entered a brave new world, not feet first, but fingers first. they were resting on my computer keyboard and they were trembling terribly. i was about to push the button that would delete my uncle…