re: #183 NJDhockeyfan

“It’s like asking students to make an argument that the world is flat,” said Matthew Friedman, associate regional director of the Anti-Defamation League. “It’s just a patently false argument and there’s really no educational value there.”

I disagree with Friedman. There are good reasons for an assignment like this, in order to get students to research and be able to present evidence.

And, it would be a very good exercise for students to learn why some used to think the Earth was flat, and ask the students to prove that it isn’t.

This is pedagogy - requiring students to understand how previous people came to the conclusions they did.