> “the cell wants to x” is language that we can’t use in a HS classroom
If you can’t use language like that you’re giving up on getting anything through to over half of the class. Trying to impart information to people who don’t care and aren’t interested is amazingly hard. Not using agentic framing makes it harder.
I don’t think we should teach wrong things because they are easier. It may be true that it’s easier to teach biology if you gives cells individual agency, but it’s just false
If you can’t use language like that you’re giving up on getting anything through to over half of the class. Trying to impart information to people who don’t care and aren’t interested is amazingly hard. Not using agentic framing makes it harder.