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so you'll continue doing it your way until something is published?
thank goodness Thomas Edison didn't think that his candles we're enough...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Whatcott" <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: Feynman (was pedagogy)
Thank Goodness for John Clements, who reminds us time and again,
that no matter how plausible & attractive the teaching initiatives -
(e.g. to demonstrate problem solving cold - complete with warts) -
if there is no experimental improvement shown, then there is no
scientific basis for a method.
Brian Whatcott
At 05:08 PM 5/8/2004, John Clements, you wrote:
In all of this discussion there has been no firm evidence presented
that any of these methods actually improve problem solving.
In the case of Feynman I think we should remember that he said
that his lectures were a failure in
that they did not improve student understanding of physics.
John M. Clement
Houston, TX