Weird how much of what's taught formally about physical phenomena is reduced purely to the symbolic layer: e.g. memorize the name of the thing x that does y, memorize the name of phenomenon y, label x on the same vastly oversimplified line drawing you saw in the book.
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The book "Scienceblind" discusses how young kids reconcile what they're taught about the earth being round / spherical with what they see with their own eyes.pic.twitter.com/IUn2irWpXQ
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I’ve now asked approximately 200 teenagers over the last year if they’ve been told *why* π r2 works. Every single one were just given the formula without explanation and told to solve problems with it. Our schools are inspired by Kafka.
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Ask any adult they still don't know. Explaining 'why' math or physics works is the whole beauty.
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I often don't agree with your notion but this is so spot-on it hurts.
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Was thinking about this the other day What knowledge could someone trained like that useful impart if they were taking out of the modern day context back say 100 years? "Ugh water his Hydrogen and Oxygen" - "ugh whats Hydrogen?" "Ugh its a thing like a element ugh you know..."
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Assume you’ve seen this clip by Feynmanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIYKmos3-s …
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It's somewhat effective. It's because practice precedes theory. You can develop understanding of what you do later on. It goes much worse the other way around. It is the neglect of the second part that's bad.
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Yes. You create the bronze and silver people for the gold people to rule over.
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I think this does seem odd but its also pretty important to have a shared vocabulary for discussing these things upon reaching higher education
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New test idea: Given a novel physical phenomena, write a description of how you expect it to work and why. The prediction doesn’t matter, just their ability to use other systems to justify. Hard to make analogies with things you don’t actually understand.
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This is overkill. Most places, testing basic Physics, standard free response questions with *very* slight variations from the lecture or homework-on the level of switching the movement from left to right-will require curving the course or very generous partial credit.
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