Science Education in the 21st Century; using the tools of science to teach science

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The state of affairs

ref. Edward F. Redish, Richard N. Steinberg, and Jeffery M. Saul Am. J. Phys. 66, 212-224 (1998). Also Teaching Physics, Redish, Wiley, 2003, also CEW to be published,

3. Views of science and problem solving (measured)

Novice

Content: isolated pieces of information to be memorized.

Handed down by an authority.

Problem solving: pattern matching to memorized arcane recipes.

(boring, irrelevant)

Expert

Content: coherent structure of concepts.

Established by experiment, accessible to all.

Prob. Solving: Systematic concept-based strategies. Widely applicable.

traditional physics courses, our unpublished stuff ⇒ more novice including k-12 sci. teachers