Comments on: Teaching Thinking (June 2008) http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2008/05/28/teaching-thinking-june-2008/ A “laboratory” program that is completely virtual cannot provide students with the same knowledge of chemistry that a real laboratory program can. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:31:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Liz Dorland http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2008/05/28/teaching-thinking-june-2008/#comment-288 Liz Dorland Wed, 28 May 2008 22:47:03 +0000 http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2008/05/28/teaching-thinking-june-2008/#comment-288 I am troubled by Jacoby's analysis. She has some anti-intellecutal tendencies of her own. I need to find more critiques of her work by people I respect, but here is one article that I think gets to part of the problem. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/20080316_America_anti-intellectual__Now__lets_think_this_out.html I don't belive her bleak analysis is reasonable or that it takes into account all the evidence--and certainly she seems unaware of her own biases. I am troubled by Jacoby’s analysis. She has some anti-intellecutal tendencies of her own. I need to find more critiques of her work by people I respect, but here is one article that I think gets to part of the problem.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/20080316_America_anti-intellectual__Now__lets_think_this_out.html

I don’t belive her bleak analysis is reasonable or that it takes into account all the evidence–and certainly she seems unaware of her own biases.

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