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Ideas to keep on our radar!

from May 22nd
 * We noted that FAMILY played a significant role in many but not all of our foundations that led us to teach science. What role does family play in our students' lives? What do we need to understand about the influence of family in our students' science/engineering education? What do we need to "do"about it?
 * MISCONCEPTIONS research has been very useful in science. But in the last decade researchers have been moving past misconceptions to new ways of looking at students' prior ideas.What do we need to know about students' "private universes" and how we can help students do the ahrd work of conceptual change?
 * GOAL-LESS PROBLEMS (Lisa D. & Physics) are a way to have students have the ownership of showing how they have mastered a standard - they are given a scenario and standards but not a specific problem to solve. Can we explore what this would look like at other grade levels and in other disciplines?