Every year new students come will come into our classrooms with their own beliefs and preconceived notions. Sometimes these notions include incorrect understandings of scientific […]
Looking at these above statements, how many do you think are true? Trick question: They’re ALL false! Now, don’t feel bad, a lot people believe […]
Misconceptions are one of the toughest opponents in science classrooms today. It is seen throughout research that “students conceptual misunderstanding of natural phenomena indicates that […]
Plants can only reproduce asexually. Daughters inherit most of their characteristics from their mothers and sons from their fathers. Eating sugar causes kids to become […]
Everyone once in their lives have believes some type misconception in science. These misconceptions are often learned as a child and have been with you […]
Teachers (especially ones who teach High School) often have to teach students who have pre-instructural knowledge about a topic. This pre-instructural knowledge is not always […]
Eleanor Duckworth is a firm believer in “the having of wonderful ideas.” You may be wondering, what classifies as a wonderful idea? She describes the […]
The foundation of learning is the construction of one’s own knowledge. This is an instrumental theory in education. Many philosophers have developed their own theories […]
In the book “The Having of Wonderful Ideas”, Duckworth emphasizes the importance of the virtues involved in not knowing, just as much as the virtue […]
When I was younger, I absolutely adored the show Jimmy Neutron. Every so often during an episode Jimmy would get a brilliant idea of how […]
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