tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792307050609117515.post45369407796595957..comments2023-10-21T10:00:25.485-05:00Comments on Union, Trueheart, and Courtesy: We regret the errordonnadbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580583133757807126noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792307050609117515.post-91621547105266364842007-10-08T16:00:00.000-05:002007-10-08T16:00:00.000-05:00Maybe you could phrase it as a question or request...Maybe you could phrase it as a question or request for clarification? Do the students have a textbook that defines the terms more clearly? I do think it needs to be corrected.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03202673797468505333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792307050609117515.post-61435008118626873522007-10-06T22:41:00.000-05:002007-10-06T22:41:00.000-05:00Don't I know it...Whether it comes from you or not...Don't I know it...<BR/><BR/>Whether it comes from you or not, I hope you're able to get the proper feedback to this person. Nobody's receiving any favors, including yourself, from silence. But yeah, these sort of things can be awfully tricky.the secret knitterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01644338306685648097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792307050609117515.post-23134332582620357742007-10-04T10:40:00.000-05:002007-10-04T10:40:00.000-05:00Write an uber-nice note where you pretend to be an...Write an uber-nice note where you pretend to be an entomology student saying that you happened to see the same slide under a different label one time and slide it under her door. :)PossumCrepeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08872537258030257459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792307050609117515.post-3457714811020484412007-10-03T22:10:00.000-05:002007-10-03T22:10:00.000-05:00Thought of another reasonable way of "framing" you...Thought of another reasonable way of "framing" your concerns. Jonathan Wells' obnoxious and inaccurate book <EM>The Icons of Evolution</EM> uses homology as one of its examples of classic textbook illustration that is wrong and being used to misleading students into believing evolutionary theory. Since many of your students have undoubtedly encountered this propaganda in their churches, and these aprticular concepts are so easily confused, it's important that they get a crystal-clear definition in class to help keep them from falling for Wells' "circular argument" ruse. <BR/>Maybe this link would help?<BR/><BR/>http://www.ncseweb.org/icons/icon3homology.htmlDoc Thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07901438460235363726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792307050609117515.post-27251709635706064782007-10-03T21:52:00.000-05:002007-10-03T21:52:00.000-05:00Egads, do you just want your biologically inclined...Egads, do you just <EM>want</EM> your biologically inclined readers to break out in hives?<BR/><BR/>Those two terms are commonly confused by students, though I am surprised a science professor would make that error. But absolutely, yes, you'd be doing the person a favor by setting them straight. I'd try to get anther science professor to do it, perhaps by sending her some other suggestions for visual aides. The "when I lecture on that topic, students often confuse those concepts; here's an illustration I've found that seems to clarify it for them" approach.Doc Thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07901438460235363726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2792307050609117515.post-50345054300159516482007-10-03T20:23:00.000-05:002007-10-03T20:23:00.000-05:00Anonymous notes? Cowardly, but more comfortable fo...Anonymous notes? Cowardly, but more comfortable for all sides.<BR/><BR/>A similar sort of thing happened to me in an Art History/Music class. My professor was lecturing on Samuel Coleridge Taylor, an Afro-British, early-20th century composer and conductor. She proclaimed to the class that not only had Taylor been a pioneer as a conductor, he had also written "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."<BR/><BR/>Music isn't my field, but English Literature is, and the guy who wrote that poem was white, fat, and dead before 1840. And in his name, the 'Coleridge' came last.<BR/><BR/>But it's very hard to correct a professor (for me at least), in class or out, and I didn't say anything. I did, however, stew about it for weeks.katie j.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14408871890999398739noreply@blogger.com