How Media Hype Affects Our Physics Teaching: A Case Study on Quantum Computing (Journal Article)
Josephine C. Meyer et al...
How Media Hype Affects Our Physics Teaching: A Case Study on Quantum Computing (Journal Article) - Washington , DC American Association of Physics Teachers May 2023 - 339–342 p. - American Association of Physics Teachers ,American Institute of Physics, Volume 61, Number 5 .
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Abstract-
Popular media is an unspoken yet ever-present element of the physics landscape and a tool we can use in our teaching.1 It is also well understood that students enter the physics classroom with a host of conceptions learned from the world at large.2,3 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 science4—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.
Here, we explore the phenomenon of media hype from a theoretical and practical perspective: how media rhetoric of current topics in science and technology evolves, and how it affects students and instructors. We argue that media hype of cutting-edge science can...
Topics
0031-921X
RIEBPL Library
High temperature superconductors, Machine learning,
Higgs bosons, Students, Learning and learning models, Teaching methods and strategies,
Educator, Quantum algorithms,
Quantum computing,
Quantum information
530.071
How Media Hype Affects Our Physics Teaching: A Case Study on Quantum Computing (Journal Article) - Washington , DC American Association of Physics Teachers May 2023 - 339–342 p. - American Association of Physics Teachers ,American Institute of Physics, Volume 61, Number 5 .
***______________***
Abstract-
Popular media is an unspoken yet ever-present element of the physics landscape and a tool we can use in our teaching.1 It is also well understood that students enter the physics classroom with a host of conceptions learned from the world at large.2,3 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 science4—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.
Here, we explore the phenomenon of media hype from a theoretical and practical perspective: how media rhetoric of current topics in science and technology evolves, and how it affects students and instructors. We argue that media hype of cutting-edge science can...
Topics
0031-921X
RIEBPL Library
High temperature superconductors, Machine learning,
Higgs bosons, Students, Learning and learning models, Teaching methods and strategies,
Educator, Quantum algorithms,
Quantum computing,
Quantum information
530.071