How Big Ideas are Revealed
Big ideas are typically revealed via:
• Core concepts (migration, function)
• Focusing themes (good vs. evil)
• Ongoing debate/issues (nature vs. nurture)
• Illuminating paradox/problem (freedom vs. responsibility)
• Organizing theory/principle (less is more)
• Underlying assumption/perspectives (Occam’s Razor)
• Key questions
• Insightful inferences from facts
Notes:
Ways to teach.
Folksonomies: education teaching
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Good and evil (0.615825): dbpedia | freebase
Idea (0.598437): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
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