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Dr. Keller received her Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry from the University of New Mexico in 1992.
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Critical Thinking & Absolute Truth
Last Friday while attending our local homeschool conference, I gave a talk on critical thinking for children. Critical thinking tends to be an educational “buzz word” that means many things to many people. The most common approach to teaching critical thinking is to use a “critical thinking book” full of puzzles and games. However, the main thesis of my lecture was to point out that critical thinking is actually a process. If you teach your child this process, you will have taught them critical thinking even if you never “solve the puzzle.”
Read the rest of this entryConnecting the Dots with Real Science-4-Kids
School is about to start, and parents are deciding which books to use as they write up their lesson plans for the year. As a result, we get lots of questions about Real Science-4-Kids. Many people ask about the sequence RS4K books follow or about the materials needed to teach the curriculum.We also get specific questions about how RS4K deals with evolution and creation. “Is RS4K a Creationist curriculum?” many will ask. “Does RS4K teach evolution?” or “Does RS4K say ‘God created’?” people inquire.
Read the rest of this entryWhat is science? Part 5
In the previous “What is science?” post I discussed the idea of different worldviews, or maps, when it comes to interpreting scientific data. That is, scientists can often agree about data, but because of their different maps they can get into huge conflicts over what the data mean. In this post I’d like to discuss what can be done about this conflict. Do we pick one map over another? Do we suppress maps we don’t like? Do we only support the map we find favorable? Or is there another solution?
Read the rest of this entryReal Critical Thinking
One of the talks I am giving this year at homeschool conferences is called “Critical Thinking for Science.” I go into detail about critical thinking and how it applies to science. I write science books for kids, so I focus on science. But critical thinking applies to every subject, not just science.
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