Re: Supporting vs stifling curiosity

[Joseph Bellina <jbellina@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

Seems to me that the real problem here is that the teacher is in the
same place as our students or ourselves when we have one of these
misconnceptions...why do we think that simply telling the teacher, or
refering them to a web site will make a change in how they believe the
world works?  Seems to me that more active engagement is needed...and
that is much tougher problem.

sorry to be so negative,

joe

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Robert Cohen wrote:

> ..and how do you refer the teacher to the site without making the teacher
> feel even more defensive?
>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Larry Woolf [mailto:larry.woolf@GAT.COM]
> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:55 AM
> > To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> > Subject: Re: Supporting vs stifling curiosity
> >
> >
> > This common misconception is prevalent in elementary and middle school
> > science books.
> > Refer your teacher to the following site:
> > http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html
> >
> > Larry Woolf; General Atomics; 3550 General Atomics Court, San
> > Diego, CA
> > 92121; Phone:858-455-4475; FAX:858-455-4268; http://www.sci-ed-ga.org

Joseph J. Bellina, Jr.               219-284-4662
Associate Professor of Physics
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556