Exploring mirrors, recreating science and history, becoming a class community
A teacher narrates from activities and discussions that arose among undergraduates and herself while doing critical explorations of mirrors. Surprised by light's behaviors, the students responded with curiosity, losing their dependence on answers as the format of school knowledge. Inadequacies...
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| author | Cavicchi, Elizabeth |
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| description | A teacher narrates from activities and discussions that arose among undergraduates and herself while doing critical explorations of mirrors. Surprised by light's behaviors, the students responded with curiosity, losing their dependence on answers as the format of school knowledge. Inadequacies in how participants supposed light works emerged in the context of reinventing historical discoveries, including Ptolemy's second century AD account of how curved mirrors reflect, Chinese burning mirrors reported in the Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), and a ninth century AD Arabic translation of Euclid's surveying proposition. Using historical accounts only as a starting point and motivation, students' improvisational experiments explored personal interests and provided grounds for synthesizing new understandings of light and learning, and for forming relationships of community among each. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1518012023-08-23T03:23:28Z Exploring mirrors, recreating science and history, becoming a class community Cavicchi, Elizabeth Edgerton Center (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A teacher narrates from activities and discussions that arose among undergraduates and herself while doing critical explorations of mirrors. Surprised by light's behaviors, the students responded with curiosity, losing their dependence on answers as the format of school knowledge. Inadequacies in how participants supposed light works emerged in the context of reinventing historical discoveries, including Ptolemy's second century AD account of how curved mirrors reflect, Chinese burning mirrors reported in the Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), and a ninth century AD Arabic translation of Euclid's surveying proposition. Using historical accounts only as a starting point and motivation, students' improvisational experiments explored personal interests and provided grounds for synthesizing new understandings of light and learning, and for forming relationships of community among each. 2023-08-22T15:27:15Z 2023-08-22T15:27:15Z 2009 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151801 Cavicchi, Elizabeth. "Exploring mirrors, recreating science and history, becoming a class community." The New Educator 5, no. 3 (2009): 249-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/1547688X.2009.10399577 https://doi.org/10.1080/1547688X.2009.10399577 https://doi.org/10.1080/1547688X.2009.10399577 The New Educator Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Association of Teacher Educators Elizabeth Cavicchi |
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