{"id":4077,"date":"2009-11-08T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2009-11-08T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T14:00:47","slug":"put-this-in-the-form-of-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4077","title":{"rendered":"Put This in the Form of a Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/thegreatbeyond\/2009\/11\/flotus_elevating_the_social_st.html\">FLOTUS: Elevating the social status of nerds everywhere<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Making her 13th visit to a federal agency, Obama joined Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Thursday in a tightly packed, 200-person basement DOE auditorium for a mock quiz of 10 middle schoolers who would compete next year in the National Science Bowl, an outreach effort run by DOE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I heartily applaud this kind of effort.<\/p>\n<p>But (you knew there would be a &#8220;but&#8221;) this made <em>me<\/em> wince:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chu seemed to take pleasure when the budding scientists nailed a question, but winced when one team incorrectly guessed that nuclear power comprises only 5% of the US energy budget. The other team quickly got the answer right: 20%. &#8220;Correct,&#8221; said Chu with a wry smile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How is that a science question?   What concept should those students who missed it go back and study?  The format of a quiz-bowl makes it tough to ask conceptual questions, so you&#8217;re limited right out of the gate, but really \u2014 statistics about nuclear power?  Is our children learning that in science class?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLOTUS: Elevating the social status of nerds everywhere Making her 13th visit to a federal agency, Obama joined Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Thursday in a tightly packed, 200-person basement DOE auditorium for a mock quiz of 10 middle schoolers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4077\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}