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Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
I completely understand the point Dr.Taber is making. And if you are studying science or are a scientist you would have to understand the very abstract...
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Jan 2, 2007 9:48 pm
Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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Feb 1, 2007 7:25 pm
Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
I've been looking at the transcript of an interview I did some time ago with a girl at the end of her first year of sixth form. I'll call her Alice. I asked...
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D&M Hall
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Feb 12, 2007 1:09 pm
I've been thinking that it's OK to introduce centrifugal force as a real force in some circumstances. If you were in one of those large circular spacecraft...
Hi David I think this is the kind of thing that often leads to strong views - but is probably not very easily researched! My instinct in not to go there, butŠ...
I wrote the other day about Alice's way of thinking about circular motion - technically 'wrong' but quite consistent, and fitting with the common notion that...
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Mar 1, 2007 8:49 pm
Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
This is a valuable free resource (details below) for those interested ... Bibliography - STCSE Students' and Teachers' Conceptions and Science Education ...
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Apr 1, 2007 7:35 pm
Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
In conversation with a Y9 student, I learnt that iron contains particles, which are closely packed, and also atoms which are small enough to fit in the spaces...
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May 1, 2007 1:55 pm
Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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Jun 1, 2007 12:38 pm
Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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Sep 1, 2007 11:58 am
Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
Hi folks I hope you all had a good Summer (or what passes for Summer post-'Season's End'). The following derives from an interview I did a few years ago with a...
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Dr Keith S Taber
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Sep 21, 2007 7:05 am
... Re: [SciLrnDrs] the 'lies' teachers tell Hi folks I hope you all had a good Summer (or what passes for Summer post-'Season's End'). The following derives...
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Oct 1, 2007 12:13 pm
Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
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Nov 1, 2007 12:16 pm
Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
Here's an example of what I call a 'fragmentation' learning impediment (http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/kst24/ScienceLearningDoctor/LI2Fragmentation.html). Amy's...
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Michael Reiss
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Nov 9, 2007 7:18 pm
Dear Keith and others, I don't tend to feel I have much to contribute but I thought I would just say that I admire your questioning, Keith. I would never have ...
Hi Michael and all, I know it's not uncommon for students to report that "everything is made of atoms". "atoms are smallest/most basic particles of matter you...
There is no better skill in my opinion for the teaching of science than the ability to pose good questions. It is difficult to deal with science concepts...
Richard's absolutely right. No mater how much you read about what others have found out when talking to learners - actually questioning your own students can...
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Dr Keith S Taber
drkeithstaber.cantab@...
Nov 26, 2007 10:05 am
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Dec 1, 2007 1:06 pm
Science Learning Doctors group: an inter-net discussion forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about specific student learning difficulties in science and...
An example of a 'slogan' used in teaching possibly getting in the way of subsequent learning? Amy (10.4.18) was in her first term of A level biology. One of...
