Mind Your Gap

Let's examine the What and the How.  Choose a graph on Gapminder (from the links list at right). Extract two Knowledge Questions from the graph: one derived from its information; one examining how the information is presented.  Be sure to include a link to the graph you select.  Please complete your post by the end of Sunday.

Billions and Billions of Knowledge Questions

As you ponder your role as animated star stuff, take a break and watch the last 15 minutes of the first episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Remember to both enjoy the loving science and to examine how knowledge is shaped and presented.  When you're ready, please post the following:

• 3 Knowledge Questions raised by the episode
• 2 additional situations to which each KQ could be applied
• Answers to each KQ in each of the three situations (Cosmos and the other two, for each), from your perspective and an additional perspective.  This will yield six answers for each KQ for a total of 18.

Please complete this thinking and writing by Wednesday at 9:30 pm.  We will use this work to scaffold your essays.

Fun fact: in his house in Ithaca, Carl Sagan had a giant Mobil gas station Pegasus sign on the wall.