STEAMPUNKS - FLIPSTER WIKI

"You looking at me?'

Despite our best efforts, all the evidence shows that most kids go through school holding deep-rooted ideas that bear no relation to our modern understanding about the natural/physical world in which we live.

More than fifty years of research, and millions of data points, show that our k-12 education systems and teaching/text-book resources have failed to remedy this problem. 1) 2) 3)

Recent Australian research by Dr Derek Muller (University of Sydney) 4) suggests that the conventional, explicit teaching of STEM (science) in NSW schools mostly perpetuates and re-enforces fundamental misconceptions about how the world works. 5)

Attending one of our hands-on workshops might help you to make a difference.

1)
Teaching of science in NSW - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l265OGIGKmo
5)
Dr Derek Muller's PHD thesis - http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/super/theses/PhD(Muller).pdf