Twittering geobern @ #scichat

Well, I just had my first Twitter experience on #scichat.  WOW.  My twitter experience is very similar to my blogging experience, basically nonexistant!  But I survived and managed to squeeze in about 8 tweets.  The conversation felt disjointed, and I hated that I have to update my page constantly.  I kept thinking that there must be a setting on my computer that automatically refreshes.....but do not have the time to figure it out.  Also, I kept getting a security message, that I am sure I could dismiss...again time is NOT on my side!   But, I will be back again...not only because it is required for my class, but because, I have a need to succeed!!

So I twittered... I tweeted.  The subject was about evidence-based teaching.  What is evidence?  We use evidence every day to derive conclusions.  The evidence suggests that if I hit my finger with a hammer, it is going to hurt.  Sometimes good evidence leads to the wrong conclusions.   We had no idea about plate tectonics 45+ years ago.  We based our ideas on observations and came up with geosynclines to explain exotic terrances and other continental features.   But we need evidence to back our observations and to explain our questions.  Sometimes we draw wrong conclusions from the evidence we gather, but if we persist, we hopefully will come to the right conclusions.

Teaching students to question their world and to gather evidence to derive a conclusion is key.