From PowerBalance to Gove: skeptical thinking and the "academically rigorous" curriculum

Updated on Jan 23, 2011 by Richard Anderson

During a recent session with Year 7 students (the ‘Tomorrow’s World’ project I’ve described elsewhere on the blog), students were utilising the data visualisation website at GapMinder World to look at changes to the wealth and health of nations over the last 200 years. As I moved around the room, discussing ideas with students, one pupil asked a simple question:

“How do we know that the information in these graphs is accurate?”

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