wonder – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Currently reading Guthrie (2009) on “I’m curious: Can we teach curiosity?”

mglessmer — Fri, 09 May 2025 15:01:30 +0000

Teachers often talk about how they want their students to be “curious”. And what that means to them is to be asking themselves questions, but also to stay on track investigating them until they have found an answer, by which time they have probably at least a dozen new questions that they now also pursue. […]

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Currently reading about SDGs, education for wonder, and academic activism

mglessmer — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:10:46 +0000

As many other places in the world, my university works with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework, and for many researchers and teachers pointing to one or two of the goals is a common justification of why their research is relevant and important. But in many cases, the SDGs are not used […]

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“Wonder questions” and geoscience misconceptions.

mglessmer — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 15:12:21 +0000

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 methods (like, for example, concept cartoons and role plays), but two things especially sparked my interest, so that I read up on them a little […]

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