{"id":3679,"date":"2008-06-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/lost-stealth-education\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T10:30:00","slug":"lost-stealth-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/lost-stealth-education.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST: Stealth Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Some people have been subtly \u201ctricked\u201d into an educational experience. The TV show <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/006727.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">LOST<\/a><\/em>, for instance, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetailsection.com\/lost-news\/lost-finally-shows-off-its-sci.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">subtly introduced some viewers into science fiction who thought they hated it<\/a>. Some still do, but some have had their horizons broadened, and that is what education is all about. Then there are the more obvious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetailsection.com\/lost-theories\/your-voice-the-little-girl-who.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">references to philosophers and their ideas, which many have gone and explored<\/a>. Much like the <em>Matrix<\/em> films, <em>LOST<\/em> has taken philosophy and packaged it for an audience that probably assumed they had no interest in philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether educators should take more of this sort of \u201cSesame Street approach\u201d. I certainly try to make learning fun, and think students appreciate it. But I do wonder whether at least some people learn more through a TV show that ropes them in gently in this way, precisely because <em>they never think of it as educational<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Oops, have I just potentially ruined <em>LOST<\/em> for some people?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4386531955882969968?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people have been subtly \u201ctricked\u201d into an educational experience. The TV show LOST, for instance, has subtly introduced some viewers into science fiction who thought they hated it. Some still do, but some have had their horizons broadened, and that is what education is all about. Then there are the more obvious references to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LOST: Stealth Education<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some people have been subtly &quot;tricked&quot; into an educational experience. 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