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Joe Redish (2011), in his PhysLrnR post "Re: Ashamed it is physicists
and not learning scientists!" wrote: "You might also take a look at
my papers on using cognitive science in PER, and then gave three
references that failed to:
(a) specify DEFINITIVE ACADEMIC REFERENCES :-(, and
(b) recognize the invention of the internet :-(.
I suspect that Joe attempted to *subliminally* link the titles of the
references to URL's (rather than overtly showing the URL) but such
subliminal linking (SL) often fails to translate onto mail servers
and discussion-list archives.
But even if the SL's had survived the mail servers, SL-lovers such as
Redish evidently fail to appreciate that SL's SUPPRESS DEFINITIVE
ACADEMIC REFERENCES (DAR's) to the detriment of COMMUNITY MAP
building, which Redish himself has extolled - see the first signature
quote.
As President of "PEdants for Definitive Academic References which
Recognize the Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)," I'm continually
depressed by the reticence of editors, authors, and discussion-list
posters to:
A. utilize DAR's, the guideposts of the COMMUNITY MAP, and
B. accept the precious gift of physicist-turned-computer-scientist
Tim Berners-Lee <http://bit.ly/dPFtPa> that allows articles and
reports to be brought to a reader's screen with the click of a mouse
on a *hot-linked* URL.
For PEDARRI-approved versions of Joe's references see the double
asterisked ** references in the REFERENCE list below.
"The culture of science includes the continual interaction, exchange,
evaluation, and criticism we make of each other's views. This
produces a kind of emergent phenomenon I refer to as a *community
consensus knowledge base* or more briefly, a COMMUNITY MAP."
Joe Redish (1999)
"Those of us in physics know well that advancement in science is a
continual dance between the partners of theory and experiment, first
one leading, then the other. It is not sufficient to collect data
into a 'wizard's book' of everything that happens. That's not
science. Neither is it science to spout high-blown theories untainted
by 'reality checks'. Science must build a coherent and clear picture
of what is happening at the same time as it continually confirms and
calibrates that picture against the real world."
Joe Redish (1994)
"It is not enough to observe, experiment, theorize, calculate and
communicate; we must also argue, criticize, debate, expound,
summarize, and otherwise transform the information that we have
obtained individually into reliable, well established, public
knowledge."
John Ziman. 1969. "Information, Communication, Knowledge," Nature
224: 318-324;
abstract online at <http://bit.ly/cNPB1d>.
"A paper that does not have references is like a child without an
escort walking at night in a big city it does not know: isolated,
lost, anything may happen to it."
Bruno Latour (1987)
"Usually I find the inclusion of references busywork and ignore it. . . . ."
Ed Eckel (2003) [an all too typical PhysLrnR subscriber]
REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed on
26 July 2011.]
Eckel, E. 2003. "Re: The bad effects of physics first." PhysLrnR post
of 23 Nov 2003 08:06:45-0500; online at <http://bit.ly/qzCYgB>. To
access the archives of PhysLnR one needs to subscribe :-(, but that
takes only a few minutes by clicking on <http://bit.ly/nG318r> and
then clicking on "Join or Leave PHYSLRNR-LIST." If you're busy, then
subscribe using the "NOMAIL" option under "Miscellaneous." Then, as a
subscriber, you may access the archives and/or post messages at any
time, while receiving NO MAIL from the list!
Latour. B. 1987. "Science in Action - How to Follow Scientists and
Engineers Through Society," Harvard University Press, p. 33.
Publisher's information at <http://bit.ly/hOCc2q >.
**Redish, E.F. 1994. "Implications of Cognitive Studies for Teaching
Physics," Am. J. Phys. 62L 796-803; online at <http://bit.ly/pNabSR>.
Redish, E.F. 1999. "Millikan lecture 1998: Building a science of
teaching physics," Am. J. Phys. 67(7): 562-573; online at
<http://bit.ly/pePmuK>.
**Redish, E.F. 2004. "A Theoretical Framework for Physics Education
Research: Modeling student thinking," in Redish & Vicentini (2004);
online as a 741 kB pdf at <http://bit.ly/mPNeGE>
**Redish, E.F. & M. Vicentini, eds. 2004. "Proceedings of the
International School of Physics, 'Enrico Fermi' Course CLVI," IOS
Press Amsterdam; Amazon.com information at <http://amzn.to/p4MJg7>.
**Redish, E.F. & K.A. Smith. 2008. "Looking Beyond Content: Skill
development for engineers," Journal of Engineering Education 97:
295-307; a pre-publication version is online as a 283 kB pdf at
<http://bit.ly/pV7ZwG>.
Redish, E.F. 2011. "Re: Ashamed it is physicists and not learning
scientists!" PhysLrnR post of 26 Jul 2011 09:34:35-0400; online at
<http://bit.ly/pg6Enu>. To access the archives of PhysLnR one needs
to subscribe :-(, but that takes only a few minutes by clicking on
<http://bit.ly/nG318r> and then clicking on "Join or Leave
PHYSLRNR-LIST." If you're busy, then subscribe using the "NOMAIL"
option under "Miscellaneous." Then, as a subscriber, you may access
the archives and/or post messages at any time, while receiving NO
MAIL from the list!