In her class Topics in Collaborative Robotics, one student proposed to teach a robot to make a salad.
One start-up, iStash.com, proposed to teach children how to manage money (and "in a fun, cool, exciting way" by using a "holistic approach to money management").
Despite them, even so, one would be suspicious of anyone who proposed to teach Hesiod's Theogony or Ovid's Metamorphoses or the Mahabharata or the Epic of Gilgamesh as a textbooks of historical fact.
The first part of this documentary deals with the familiar "science wars", in which one side seeks to educate children in the sciences, and the other side proposes to "teach the controversy" in order to undermine those aspects of science that conflict with its religious convictions.
The startup proposes to "teach creative entrepreneurs from small and medium businesses how to get new customers, increase cash flow and generate more success in business".
Reprising themes borrowed from Marsilio Ficino, who had taught how to attract the favor of the stars, Campanella proposed to teach how to avoid the evils threatened by the stars through taking suitable precautions.
In 1967, Logo proposed to teach abstract programming concepts by providing a set of functions that had intuitive, visible effects over a robotic Turtle.
The lack of acceptance for evolution was manifested by the participants in their lesson ideas that proposed to teach the religious perspective of creationism as an equally acceptable explanation for the origin of species.
Before I continue, a few words to place this physician in the history of medicine: Dr. Beach was in the forefront of a reform movement in medicine that proposed to teach every person about human anatomy and physiology to improve health and prevent disease.
For example, a number of German Associate Deans for Medical Education have proposed to judge teaching success based on aggregated examination scores and pass rates [ 2], while the students interviewed in this study were mainly interested in individual learning outcome.
