Comments on: A tool to diagnose your students’ learning difficulties http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/05/12/a-tool-to-diagnose-your-students-learning-difficulties/ explorations and inspirations... in how we learn science Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:52:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Melanie Mulhall http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/05/12/a-tool-to-diagnose-your-students-learning-difficulties/comment-page-1/#comment-1387 Melanie Mulhall Wed, 13 May 2009 16:50:38 +0000 http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/?p=569#comment-1387 sciencegeekgirl, A tool that can detect errors in thinking?! I don't care how long it has been around, if it can do that in any way, it is a valuable tool. Whether science or the arts, the abiltiy to think, to reason, to transfer a piece of learning from one area to its potential application in another is, I think, the most important thing we can teach children. Content is fine. Helping people learn how to think is even more important. I'm a fan of philosophy classes at the earliest possible age because of this. I'd also be a fan of any tool that can help teach people how to think for themselves! I'd love to hear if there is anything else out there like this. Isn't science grand?! Melanie sciencegeekgirl,

A tool that can detect errors in thinking?! I don’t care how long it has been around, if it can do that in any way, it is a valuable tool. Whether science or the arts, the abiltiy to think, to reason, to transfer a piece of learning from one area to its potential application in another is, I think, the most important thing we can teach children. Content is fine. Helping people learn how to think is even more important.

I’m a fan of philosophy classes at the earliest possible age because of this. I’d also be a fan of any tool that can help teach people how to think for themselves!

I’d love to hear if there is anything else out there like this. Isn’t science grand?!

Melanie

]]> By: Rhett http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/05/12/a-tool-to-diagnose-your-students-learning-difficulties/comment-page-1/#comment-1385 Rhett Wed, 13 May 2009 12:28:08 +0000 http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/?p=569#comment-1385 I am blanking on what I said the limitation was also. hmmmm. think, think, think. Nope. I got nothin. Rhett I am blanking on what I said the limitation was also. hmmmm. think, think, think. Nope. I got nothin.

Rhett

]]> By: sciencegeekgirl http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/05/12/a-tool-to-diagnose-your-students-learning-difficulties/comment-page-1/#comment-1382 sciencegeekgirl Tue, 12 May 2009 23:51:20 +0000 http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/?p=569#comment-1382 Thanks, Doug, it is so helpful to have knowledgeable commentors! So, you think that Diagnoser is a good tool for what it's designed to do? Have you used it? I'm just so curious if it's helpful in the way that it sounds like it could be. Thanks, Doug, it is so helpful to have knowledgeable commentors! So, you think that Diagnoser is a good tool for what it’s designed to do? Have you used it? I’m just so curious if it’s helpful in the way that it sounds like it could be.

]]> By: Doug Holton http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/05/12/a-tool-to-diagnose-your-students-learning-difficulties/comment-page-1/#comment-1381 Doug Holton Tue, 12 May 2009 22:55:20 +0000 http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/?p=569#comment-1381 Diagnoser is nice, but just fyi it's been around since the early 90s. This is the most popular reference about it: Hunt, E. and Minstrell, J. (1994). A collaborative classroom for teaching conceptual physics. In K. McGilly (Ed.), Classroom lessons: Integrating cognitive theory and classroom practice. Cambridge: MIT Press. Diagnoser is nice, but just fyi it’s been around since the early 90s. This is the most popular reference about it:

Hunt, E. and Minstrell, J. (1994). A collaborative classroom for teaching conceptual physics. In K. McGilly (Ed.), Classroom lessons: Integrating cognitive theory and classroom practice. Cambridge: MIT Press.

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