While planning for tomorrow's class, this was part of the view from my office window.

great questions to ask

How do you know?

How did you decide?

Why do you believe that?

more info on overcoming misconceptions

Hah. no sooner had I noted that I wanted more information on dealing with students' misconceptions that a ran across useful tips.

In How People Learn, Ch 7, p179, two strategies are discusses, bridging and interactive lecture demonstrations.
bridging - use series of intermediate analogous situations to bridge distance between their misconcepttions and correct belief, called the anchoring conception. is a dynamic probing of students' beliefs.

interactive lecture demonstrations
before conducting demonstration, ask students to discuss upcoming demo and predict outcome. then do demo, and typcially students have predicted incorrectly But through discussion following demo students can move from their previous conceptions to more accurate ones.

Impt to note that timely feedback is essential here. "delays of only 20-30 minutes in displaying graphical data after seeing a demo has negative effect on correctly learning the concept.

areas to investigate further

1. clarifying what misconceptions students tend to have in Ped2,
2. and then figure out how to best address them.