Is Our Teachers Learning?

What Makes Science ‘Science’? (free registration may be required)

Apparently, they isn’t.

Graduates, from a range of science disciplines and from a variety of universities in Britain and around the world, have a poor grasp of the meaning of simple terms and are unable to provide appropriate definitions of key scientific terminology. So how can these hopeful young trainees possibly teach science to children so that they become scientifically literate? How will school-kids learn to distinguish the questions and problems that science can answer from those that science cannot and, more importantly, the difference between science and pseudoscience?

Update: Commentary over at Effect Measure

They Don't Know They're Scientists

They’re just systematically figuring out how to beat the computer by figuring out the rules, via hypotheses and experimentation.

How Videogames Blind Us With Science

At one point, Steinkuehler met up with one of the kids who’d built the Excel model to crack the boss. “Do you realize that what you’re doing is the essence of science?” she asked.
He smiled at her. “Dude, I’m not doing science,” he replied. “I’m just cheating the game!”