FIXME //These are raw notes for an eventual wiki page. Please return later.// ====== The Role of Story-telling in the Physics Classroom ====== ===== Establish community ===== ==== Who belongs ==== === Exclusion Stories === * Strapless gown * Look to your right + left. “n” of you will not be here in (time period). * Falling asleep. === Inclusion stories === * I am just like you. * Minnesota “you” ==== Using humor ==== ==== Coping with fear ==== * Delta-squared of infinity ===== Establishing Professional Identity ===== ==== What will I “do” as a physicist? ==== ==== Heroes + myths ==== ===== Teaching Problem-solving ===== ==== Providing analogies/metaphors ==== ==== Naming the epistemological game ==== * Redish arrow on the boat ===== Establishing/changing the Frame ===== ==== What will I be expected to do in the classroom? ==== * Playing star Trek * Student quote ==== Enduring stories/Recurring Scenarios ==== ==== Tapping kinesthetic resources ==== * People as part of the idealization process * More vivid * Combine with humor—what do the cognitive people say ==== Modelling idealization ==== * Bring KC in from infinity * Vincent is obstreperous * CTSTVH ===== Memorability ===== ==== 30 yrs later ==== * Black hole swiss cheese earth—conservation of energy, duality. * Pendulum bowling ball * Bed of nails ==== Surprise + humor ==== * Role of laughter and surprise in memory building. * What do the neuron/cognitive people say? * Using humor to get at the last piece for the lightbulb to go on—Monica seeing current as a flux after the Vincent is obstreperous story. ===== Other stuff: ===== * Pedagogical Content Knowledge—How do you know what to do in the classroom Lee Schulman * Where the class currently is is taking us back somewhere we’ve been before—refer to it explicitly and with humor and kinesthetic references if possible. * Emily’s word “moves” * Discrepent Events (Piaget) Equilibrium/Disequilibrium—Temperature of different materials. * “Fostering the teachable moment” * “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery & Invention” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi $10.25