education /oss/taxonomy/term/3104/all en PragerU Targets Kids and Parents with Shockingly Bad Science /oss/article/critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition-pseudoscience/prageru-targets-kids-and-parents-shockingly-bad-science <p>If we’re trying to understand our era, we need to recognize the following: mainstream institutions and their various consensuses are being replaced by fringe alternatives. In the United States right now, mainstream science and education are being levelled to make way for replacements, and because ideas are not contained by geopolitical borders, this institutionalization of bad ideas can affect us all.</p> Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 11432 at /oss A Call To Teach Chemistry /oss/article/contributors-general-science/call-teach-chemistry <p>Is there something in your past to put you on a path to become an educator? When I was a teenager I did one of those guidance counsellor tests which suggested I should become one. I laughed. But a couple of years later, when I helped a girl with her chemistry homework at the college library, she said I had the makings of a good teacher. My favorite chemistry professor in university reminded me of the Gilligan’s Island professor. Professor McElcheron was a tinkerer in his own lab, and instead of being shipwrecked like the TV character, he lived by choice on his own island.</p> Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:38:51 +0000 Enrico Uva B.Sc. Dip. Ed. 9719 at /oss