SOCS - Philosophy
I get it! I am more cognizant of my students misconceptions. Just because I'm teaching, no matter how fabulous the instruction, or how cool the activity, does not necessarily guarantee my students are learning. They have to be mentally engauged in the construction of their learning. Yeah, you can solve the equation and get the answer by plugging in the numbers. So what, I can teach a monkey to put an apple in a hole, doesn't mean that he knows he's about to make applesauce.
"Learning and Instruction in Pre-college Physcial Science", Jose P. Mestre, Physics Today, Sept. 1991, pp 56-62.
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