Imagine having to wake up without your alarm (impossible mission) and not be able to use the faucet in the bathroom because it doesn't exist. Then imagine moving on with your day, no cars for transportation (you need to walk for work) , no electricity, no internet connection, no lights, no mobile phones and much more NOs.
Probably you couldn't imagine yourself in any of these situations. Well that's exactly how our life would seem without physics. Each branch of physics is directly connected to one aspect of our lives, for example: mechanics is responsible for transportation, the light domain is responsible for us seeing what's going around us. However physics is always unappreciated and considered boring. Those feelings do not come from the vacuum, they result from listening to prior bad experience in physics and boring instruction.
Therefore physics teachers are obliged to cultivate the students in appropriate conditions for learning physics and to follow various techniques in teaching and experimenting.
Well, yes physics is all around us. However, for the "mission impossible" part, lots of people have their own biological clock; they just wake up when they decide to, or the time they are used to.
ReplyDeleteExperiments are the best part of learning all kinds of sciences. I would still enjoy them myself!
That's true Neam. Physics is always un appreciated especially by the students, they don't know how important it is in their real life, they just consider it as an difficult and boring subject. I faced such problems with my students and I worked on solving them by first showing the students how physics is related to their real life and how it can help them in it. Also, while explaining physics to students I used many times to make students experiment things by their hands in order to enjoy learning and not to feel bored. So as you said, teachers need to cultivate students in appropriate conditions for learning physics.
ReplyDeleteI like physics although I hate Math. This unappreciative view of physics I guess is because the way most physics teachers present their material; a content for the goal mere assessment, and thus physics teaching should be made more meaningful and authentic by showing students authentic examples and making some experiments and project, so that students can see its relevance to our life
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