tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356300930740320331.post8814186916147182140..comments2024-03-05T22:04:38.877-08:00Comments on Teach. Brian. Teach.: Exposing Ignorance and Fostering IntriqueBrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06289013669698459078noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356300930740320331.post-75461000457048040502012-08-26T22:39:09.885-07:002012-08-26T22:39:09.885-07:00I loved watching this video, and I enjoyed the spi...I loved watching this video, and I enjoyed the spirited conversations we had in my classroom about it, but now I'm chagrined that we took pleasure in "exposing and shaming." <br /><br />I'm a novice teacher groping in the dark, but I remember reading that watching someone struggle with a concept is much more likely to help one move past naive preconceptions and construct a more accurate understanding than watching someone stating misconceptions and correcting them. Hmm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356300930740320331.post-35985929653130656442011-08-09T09:50:40.659-07:002011-08-09T09:50:40.659-07:00Thanks for the quote of the day: "...simple-a...Thanks for the quote of the day: "...simple-authoritative answers to complex and intriguing phenomena often lead to impoverished understandings in science and of science."Dorriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10122344555112777691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356300930740320331.post-69634702972457459872011-07-25T19:40:28.759-07:002011-07-25T19:40:28.759-07:00thanks for this - there's another video simila...thanks for this - there's another video similar to that where they ask harvard grads where the weight of a tree comes from (and many say from the soil instead of the carbon of the air) and the video uses this as damning evidence that our education system is busted. but you're so right, it was so much more expose and shame than anything else.<br />random thought that came out from this: i am always so intrigued that when a big earthquake happens that the earth speeds up or slows down depending on how the earth's mass is redistributed. so cool! i love the conservation of angular momentum in this context. that idea could be a cool extension of some of those questions (not that this was the point of the post).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356300930740320331.post-51720005620472913032011-07-25T06:58:20.564-07:002011-07-25T06:58:20.564-07:00I agree whole-heartedly with your second to last p...I agree whole-heartedly with your second to last paragraph. When you first posed the question "why does the earth spin?" I soon thought of revising the question to "why hasn't the earth stopped spinning?" The first question prompts students to think of a cause for beginning to spin, or even maintaining spin like spinning a basketball here on earth. The revised questions you proposed are much more along the "lesson aim" of force and motion.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15155331801191404009noreply@blogger.com