Unknown uncertainty: critically examining knowledge
August 5th, 2009
Basking in the summer sun and the glory of the examination results, I am setting you a little personal task. The task is to consider, in the context of a problem, what knowledge is and how you know, what you know. There is a task sheet available for download here.
Categories: Advanced Higher Physics, Higher Physics, Standard Grade Physics | Tags: critical thinking, epistemology, knowledge
[...] refer you back to the personal task I set you – and which I have not forgotten, by the way – about the nature of knowledge. [...]
[...] “That good feeling” is addictive. It is the joy of winning the intellectual battle. This student has set her mind free. The task was posted here. [...]
[...] I developed a personal development task for my senior students based around the idea of epistemological metacognition: the knowledge of how one’s knowledge comes about and how to gain deeper insight and certainty in that knowledge with critical assessment. I produced the task sheet and a video podcast which was first broadcast on 5th August 2009. Access these here. [...]