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Off topic, but... Does anyone know of a community exploring transformative improvements in science education content? Perhaps discussing topics like: Using pre
by mncharity 7y ago
Off topic, but... Does anyone know of a community exploring transformative improvements in science education content?
Perhaps discussing topics like: Using pre-K content to inoculate against misconceptions, instead of engendering them.[1] Using industry-derived orthogonal sets of adjectives for describing perceptual properties of materials, instead of the usual adhocery. Rough quantitative description. Teaching scale down to atoms in early primary. Teaching atoms emphasizing quasi-classical nuclei balls, instead of wacky electrons. Atoms-up introduction to materials, and nanoscale emergence of bulk properties. Rough-quantitative introductory biology... in primary. The Sun is too hot, deep space is too cold, and the Earth is doing a BBQ roll between them (the space and roll bits are generally neglected).
Discussions bottlenecked as much on science expertise as educational expertise.
In some sense it's unhelpful discussion. Many ideas are currently undeployable, or their value is uninterestingly limited without the synergy of implausible dependencies.
But personalized AR education seemingly has the potential to alter the constraint space. With a lot of work to be done, if it isn't to be merely "the usual wretchedness, now in AR".
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud1Q_q4f-hQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud1Q_q4f-hQ