The Role of Story-telling in the Physics Classroom

• Strapless gown
• Look to your right + left. “n” of you will not be here in (time period).
• Falling asleep.

• I am just like you.
• Minnesota “you”

• Delta-squared of infinity

• Redish arrow on the boat

• Playing star Trek
• Student quote

• People as part of the idealization process
• More vivid
• Combine with humor—what do the cognitive people say

• Bring KC in from infinity
• Vincent is obstreperous
• CTSTVH

• Black hole swiss cheese earth—conservation of energy, duality.
• Pendulum bowling ball
• Bed of nails

• 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.

• 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