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What kind of knowledge?

This is a set of activities to get you thinking about how knowledge comes in different varieties and how we may need different metaphors to understand them. It needs nothing more than paper and pencil and the ability to think. The key skill being practiced here is the ability to distinguish that certain knowledge concepts work better with one metaphor for knowledge rather than another. This will help steer student...

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