Re: [Phys-L] Physics prof strips down to underwear to teach QM

["John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>]

Unfortunately stunts are remembered long after the topic is forgotten.  All
the research shows this.  Students will remember the strip tease, and not
even that it was in a QM lecture.  Stunts provide their own rewards.  And IE
provides lasting understanding.

I will agree that in context the "controversy" is silly.  I suppose a stunt
might be helpful if it gets students to attend.  But at that point IE is
what is needed to grab their minds.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX

> The "controversy" over this is idiotic. But I'd be willing to 
> bet the kids who were sitting in that lecture will remember 
> the basic features of quantum mechanics better than anything 
> else they've learned in the course. In which case, Professor 
> Hughes did his job and did it well.