The Nature of Science

MidTerm Check-In:

Science now seems like a perspective of curiosity. Coupled with an intrinsic motivation to figure out how things work. A willingness to ask questions about things, and then to keep asking questions and working on it until you have some answers. Even if those answers are only more questions. It also seems that to approach science one must possess the ability to admit one's own mistakes. To see that one's assumptions were misguided or that one's conclusions were inaccurate.

After just half of a semester of active engagement with various types of scientific inquiry, the scientific methodologies feel much more accessible to me. I am able to conceive of questions and make predictions with more confidence and clarity. Our water turbine experiment led me a deeper understanding of the physical interactions in the world. It showed me that I don't really understand things that I thought I understood. AWESOME!

RSA Animate- Changing Education Paradigms

RSA Animate- watch on youtube

Three Questions that this video brought up for me:


As a human being: How can I navigate the education system without having my curiosity extinguished?

As an educator: How can I create and maintain my own principles in regards to education and learning while getting my under graduate degree at a major university?

As a scientist: What will help me to approach my own education with an open heart and mind?