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Seems to me that the real problem here is that the teacher is in theteacher
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
feel even more defensive?
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Robert Cohen; rcohen@po-box.esu.edu; http://www.esu.edu/~bbq
Physics, East Stroudsburg Univ, E. Stroudsburg, PA 18301
-----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
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