CURMUDGUCATION: Teaching in a Post-Fact World

Originally published at: http://eduk8.me/2016/07/curmudgucation-teaching-post-fact-world/
Stephen Colbert warned us when he coined the term “truthiness” for those things that feel satisfyingly true, but have no actual basis in fact. And now we are swimming in it. From a Washington Post piece about brexit: All of this has come about thanks to a world that is increasingly suspicious of experts. Please,…