In school, curiosity is hardly ever taught or nurtured, breeding legions of students who’ve lost all love of learning.
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Neil one of my students said to me this week "facts and knowledge are useless without creativity". He's in sixth grade.
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interesting. I keep telling my kids it's the surest way to success in the uncertain future they will inherit.
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This is like The Avengers of celebrity educators coming together. Will Trump be your Thanos?
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My wife is a second grade teacher. Her theme for the year is
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And great science teachers nurture both every day without much support from celebrities like you. You owe them an apology
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Neil is about as good at apologizing as he is at holding forth outside of astronomy. Neither are his bailiwick.
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For me, he lost some sheen in his last round of educator-bashing a few (?) years ago. Although he's done some good, I'm no longer sold.
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Agreed. Too big for his britches.
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Thanks Dr. Tyson - How best to nurture curiosity? Unstructured play and fewer or no standardized tests?
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students are often rewarded for thinking a specific way, rather than being rewarded for thinking in general and exploring new ideas
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Students need to be taught how to research, analyze, and interpret information on their own, then encouraged and rewarded for doing so.
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Lack of creative and critical thinking in
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I teach both daily


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Omg. I don't know what the product would be but can I live in a world where Neil Tyson and Dan Carlin collab on something?
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2 of my favorite educational podcasts... together at last
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some of us try to teach those things!!!
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And cooking a good steak....
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1)We need to teach tolerance/civil disobedience/peaceful boycott from young age by exposing them to great minds the world has produced.
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Maybe add a different view of things for students to consider rather than the socialistic slant that has dominated since the 1970's Neil
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