Have you just started the project? or you have documented your findings on the basis of your experiment? if so can you share your learning? in the form of any tools, exercises, practices, processes.
If you walk in a forest and you see Something (e.g. an animals doing Something), you start to think about it. How and why is the animal doing this? This simple approach can be used for all phenomena in nature, right? How and why is something happening. If you wish to understand nature, you have to first observe nature and then think about it. I rarely start from a simple idea picked up in the literature. I start from an observation and then elaborate. This is also the natural way of Learning, right? I child observes and then asks questions (how and why)
Great insight Marcel. Can you share any of your work on this. Thanks. Fayyaz
You start with an observation and wants to explain it. How to explain it? Verify the literature for similar observations and how they are explained. One or more hypotheses can be proposed to explain your observation. Think about how to test the different hypotheses
Before I started the project, I pored over the literature, and made some good sense of it. I recruited co researchers with considerable experience in education. I observed that many students think memorizing will be sufficient to get a good enough grade. But I wanted students to LOVE SCIENCE, to think through scientific issues, as related to our daily lives and decisions we must make each day, in a world that gets poorer in natural resources. It took a long time to develop self directed, independent learners, who are willing and happy to be responsible for their learning. That is a lesson for me...
Dear Marcell, Do you pick the observation at random or you pick it in view of its link with the answer you have in mind? Do you open or closed discussion in mind? How can teachers deal with unforseen answers? memorizing not only protects the students but the teachers from the fear of unknown? How do you factor in dealing with the fear?
If you walk in a forest and you see Something (e.g. an animals doing Something), you start to think about it. How and why is the animal doing this? This simple approach can be used for all phenomena in nature, right? How and why is something happening. If you wish to understand nature, you have to first observe nature and then think about it. I rarely start from a simple idea picked up in the literature. I start from an observation and then elaborate. This is also the natural way of Learning, right? I child observes and then asks questions (how and why)
Observation provides an insight to qualitative findings which are instrumental.
Chris, interesting remark! How to develop a method for Something that has not been discovered yet, but for which one assumes it should increase the probability of discovery? Anyway, the first step is to use the senses, right? You may have the most powerful techniques in the world, you only have the senses to develop the techniques and the same senses to make interpretations of the technical outputs?
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