1. The Power of Perception & Diversity in science & your classes

2. What do you think you see?

3. What do you see now?

4. Now do you see the cow?

5. Interpreting Images

7. Of Mice, Men and Science

8. If time…

9. Basketball Passing http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html

10. Perception & Diversity
What positive influences can diversity (including diversity of viewpoints) contribute:
To science?
To your science lessons?
What are the strengths associated with students having different viewpoints, different interpretations?

11. What does all this have to do with science?
Scientific Knowledge Is…
Empirically based
Tentative
The product of observation and inference
The product of creative thinking
Subjective, to a degree
Influenced by social and cultural contexts

12. Galileo’s drawings of Jupiter = 16110
Other’s drawings over the next 45 years…

13. Christiaan Huygens’ Model of the Planet Saturn:
Proposed this model in 1655
Christiaan Huygens’ Model of the Planet Saturn:
Saturn is surrounded by a “thin, flat ring, nowhere touching.”

14. Perception & Diversity
What positive influences can diversity (including diversity of viewpoints) contribute to science and the work of scientists?
What are the strengths associated with students having different viewpoints, different interpretations?