Random Analogies
Motor Oil For Learning
a: An analogy ~
b: a lubricant for your concepts
What: There is much written about how analogy is an
essential part of how humans learn and think. In a teaching context, analogies help to extend a students current concepts. In some ways, they help a concept slide into another space, helping a student to process and assimilate new information.
Useful?
Writer: LucretiaGemanica
LCC: LB
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Feb 8 2012 5:10 PM
# 1672 Critique Analogy
Maybe It Is, Maybe It Is Not....
a: Geology ~
b: a weather forecast
What: "just don't get cocky and start believing your ideas too much. Belief in geology is like a weather forecast - it's based upon percentages. A good geologist is rarely 100% sure of anything. Remember the last two steps in the scientific method and keep an open mind."
Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
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Where:
Date: Apr 14 2013 2:27 PM
# 2715 Critique Analogy
a: Methamphetamine ~
b: farting in the hurricane of alcohol
What: "The policy makers need to get real and wake up to the facts. There is no epidemic of meth killing even a smidgen of the people that alcohol and tobacco are killing. By comparison, methamphetamine is like farting in the hurricane of alcohol and tobacco."
Useful?
Writer: Markham's Behavioral Health
LCC:
Where:
Date: Oct 25 2013 7:24 PM
# 4313 Critique Analogy
a: messenger RNA ~
b: a long coastline with a lot of ports
What:
"The problem, Darnell explains, is that the messenger RNA "is like a long coastline with a lot of ports, and it's been very difficult to know where the microRNA docks." Biochemical and computer prediction methods are imperfect, he says, and so the tedious hunt for binding sites could only be done experimentally, one RNA at a time."
Useful?
Writer: Robert B. Darnell, MD, PhD
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Where:
Date: Feb 24 2014 4:31 PM
# 5082 Critique Analogy
