Our Lives Matter S1E05: Religious Fundamentalism versus Education

Episode 5 December 28, 2023 00:20:34
Our Lives Matter S1E05: Religious Fundamentalism versus Education
Our Lives Matter
Our Lives Matter S1E05: Religious Fundamentalism versus Education

Dec 28 2023 | 00:20:34

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Show Notes

Teachers learn eight principles of learning in the course of their certification training, which show us different ways of making information memorable.  If you compare how religious leaders use them to make their religious stories memorable to how teachers use them in public school, you can see a number of ways that religious fundamentalists are competing against public school and winning.  What can we do to turn the table and make public education more memorable than religious fundamentalism?   ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] What’s the best way to tell a story?  How you tell a story depends on…

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