Currently reading Orr (1991) on “what is education for?”
In response to my post summarising Biesta’s purpose of education, my friend Terese sent me a speech David Orr gave in 1990 with a very similar vibe. Even though the…
Tag: misconceptions
“Wonder questions” and geoscience misconceptions.
Recently, as part of the CHESS/iEarth Summer School, Kikki Kleiven lead a workshop on geoscience teaching. She gave a great overview over how to approach teaching and presented many engaging…
A common misconception in rotating tank experiments, and one way of maybe not reinforcing it
A very common misconception when looking at atmosphere & ocean dynamics in a rotating tank is that the center of the tank represents one of the poles and the edge…
Oceanographic concepts and language, reloaded
How we might misunderstand our students and therefore diagnose misconceptions where there are none. Imagine you are in an Earth Sciences class and your teacher talks about glaciers and how they…