How Schools Kill Creativity

What are you thoughts on this?

How we ask questions about physics

Here is the word analysis for our QFT questions we generated about physics

Here is the analysis with the word physics removed

These are generated using Wordle with the common words removed.

Please post your answer on this blog.

1) What do these pictures tell us about how we ask questions?
2) What are differences between the first and second analysis? Then tell me why this happened?
3) Based on what you see here, what do we as a class know about physics?

Data Visualization

What did you think of the video?  What was striking?  Interesting? Eye-opening?  What type of impact did this video have on you

How did this video affect you as a learner?  How did this video affect you as a teacher?

We are trying to re-hone our view of science towards story-telling, a concept aimed at “softening” and making the process of science more accessible.  How does story-telling hook into “The Beauty of Data Visualization”?  Can you give some specific examples of how his use of visualization enhances story-telling using data?

This is a bit of a jump – can you see connections between his work and our very simple investigations on burning candles?  Think about how you presented your information and some of the presentations that other people made.