How Media Hype Affects Our Physics Teaching: A Case Study on Quantum Computing.

Autor: Meyer, Josephine C., Pollock, Steven James, Wilcox, Bethany R., Passante, Gina
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Zdroj: Physics Teacher; May2023, Vol. 61 Issue 5, p339-342, 4p
Abstrakt: Popular media is an unspoken yet ever-present element of the physics landscape and a tool we can use in our teaching. It is also well understood that students enter the physics classroom with a host of conceptions learned from the world at large. It stands to reason, then, to suspect that media coverage may be a major contributing factor to students' views on physical phenomena and the nature of science—one whose influence will only grow amid the 21st-century digital age. Yet the role of the media in shaping physics teaching and learning has remained largely unexplored in the physics education research (PER) literature so far. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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