Rather, it’s an opportunity for students to spend time critically thinking through difficult ideas with the support of others in order to deepen understanding and share insights.
It also could be hard to make sure that someone doesn't take full control of the assignment and everyone around them.
One place where grappling often falls short is in small-group work. For most instructors, the goal of small-group work is much more than students simply “sharing their ideas or opinions on X.”
from my own personal experience i would say that small-group could be a little hard to work with because splitting up work is tough and to get people to work on the assignment as well.
Another challenge to intellectual humility is that many of us see social sci-ence content as soft science and therefore value-laden and subjective.
There are many subjects that students have to familiarize themselves with and have to know in order to succeed
but knowledge based on the scholar-ly community’s established criteria for what defines a planet.
but in reality it was just done to get the student to think about many perspectives and get the student to reach a conclusion.
The professor tries once more to explain that what he presents in regard to the number of planets is not his opinion,
I like that this point was made because some students will go living their lives disliking teachers because they disagreed with them in class.
Obviously, to appreciate the crucial significance of a link such as humus, we must see it, simultaneously, in both its roles.
I like this quote because it pushes forward the thought that you can only fully appreciate something if you understand everything you can do.
One interesting slice through the environment can be taken by tracing the movement of the chemical elements that make up the environmental system.
This is done to show the reader that there is so much you can learn the environment around you including some history of what was.
What process could convert the few simple molecules in the earth's early atmosphere into the monumentally complex, yet highly selected, assemblage of organic com-pounds that we now find in living things?
This is used to ask the reader to get them thinking about the world and how different things in the environment interact with each other.
A good place to experience this illusion is a jet airplane. Safely seated on a plastic cushion, carried in a winged aluminum tube, streaking miles above the earth, through air nearly thin enough to boil the blood, at a speed that seems to make the sun stand still, it is easy to believe that
It takes a point of the rebuttal saying that he understands why, as humans we have gotten to this point of hubris. He says that we were somehow able to make a giant metal cylinder fly in the sky, it would make sense to have feel that power and have it go to your head, which is exactly what we did.
We who call ourselves advanced seem to have escaped from this kind of dependence on the environment.
I find it interesting that he clearly points out that the human race has really lost the idea of knowing where we started because of current hubris. As he said, humans think they are so much better and that whatever it is they do there won't be consequences for it and even if there are it wouldn't be anything that can handle.
Without the photosynthetic activity of green plants, there would be no oxygen for our engines, smelters, and fur-naces, let alone support for human and animal life.
This clearly shows that importance to photosynthetic energy that it impacts not only plant life, but humans and animal's lives as well. For example there would be no production of oxygen on this planet without the process of photosynthetic activity.