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Followup on Alfie Kohn and Content Knowledge

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Dan Willingham, a cognitive psychologist, has a critique of Alfie Kohn's educational writings; Kohn responds here. In an earlier post, Willingham explains why content knowledge can't be separated from critical thinking skills, and Robert Pondiscio follows up on that point with a hilarious discussion of an experiment in which children were unable to figure out that a "tree octopus" website was fake.

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).