This term I am very fortunate to be able to teach a graduate course on the Research in Science Education (EDCP 559 at UBC). This course makes me think and rethink many of the concepts I thought I have understood before. It made me think how we build our understanding and how new ideas fit into the existing frameworks. This week, we are discussing conceptual change theories. I have to admit that I thoroughly enjoyed reading the papers I assigned students to read. I am looking forward to our discussion tomorrow… I hope that slowly things will start falling into place for the students and for me… It takes time and effort to rethink and reconstruct our understanding of student learning of science, but it is certainly worth it… I also will be showing a short clip “Fish is Fish” by Leo Lionni tomorrow… I will also show it in my EDCP 357 – Physics Methods course which is also a fabulous opportunity to learn with the students. I just love it.

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