Promoting Critical Thinking
Prior Experience Trumps teaching
Prior misconceptions trumps teaching.
So teachers can use technology to test for misconceptions.
and then clarify,.
Cellphone as a polling device.
Eric Mazur – Harvard prof – Lot of material on teaching physics.
Testing for Misconceptions are important
Could put content on the web .. You know how your students are responding.
We are at the very beginning of understanding teaching and learning.
On Wikipedia .. the title is made with a slash wikipedia/november
Altavista is good place to search for who is linking to you to understand patterns.
Google search influences the way people learn. Librarian should teach grammar and syntax of the internet
to students because it guides the way they think..
Cross referencing is important.. and we need to validate searches.
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