Sunday, July 7, 2013

Retrospective Amnesia

It’s easy to become so familiar with concepts that they seem trivial. It’s difficult to remember when you didn’t know, but a little retrospective amnesia can go a long way.

(SOCS-P Arnold Arons: Teaching Introductory Physics)

Class demos can serve a purpose but it is important that students be involved in the thinking process. The punch line of the demo is the thinking, not "because of inertia" 


(SOCS-I Arnold Arons: Teaching Introductory Physics)

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