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One of my favourite course I took when studying physics at university was “Biological Nanomachines”. I find it absolutely bizarre that trying to gain a physical
by bowsamic 4y ago
One of my favourite course I took when studying physics at university was “Biological Nanomachines”. I find it absolutely bizarre that trying to gain a physical intuition for biology is not the norm. Throughout school I hated biology because it really did just feel like rote learning. This is embarrassing but I had such a poor understanding of what a cell was by the end of HS biology that I still had an image in my mind of a little conscious being that makes choices: “the cell wants to x” is language that we can’t use in a HS classroom
- barry-cotter 4y ago> “the cell wants to x” is language that we can’t use in a HS classroom If you can’t use language like that you’re giving up on getting anything through to over half of the class. Trying to impart information to people who don’t care and aren’t interested is amazingly hard. Not using agentic framing makes it harder.
- bowsamic 4y agoI don’t think we should teach wrong things because they are easier. It may be true that it’s easier to teach biology if you gives cells individual agency, but it’s just false