Ankur

=**Learner Profile in Physics **= =toc=
 * Date: 5/12/12 **


 * -Discuss which learner profile attributes have been inculcated in you in the physics classroom... and how? **


 * -Knowledgeable **
 * -Thinkers **
 * -Inquirers **
 * -Balanced **
 * -Principled **
 * -Reflective **
 * -Open-minded **
 * -Caring **
 * -Risk Takers **
 * -Communicators **


 * I feel that I have become knowledgeable because i have learned alot of physics and science in general. I have also become proficient in using technology such as video analysis, how to search for resources on the internet and creating an online presence. **


 * Thinking has been inculcated in the physics classroom as Ms. Basu's way of teaching is questioning the students, thereby forcing them to think. **


 * Our teacher has always answered our questions without hesitation, and she encourages us to ask questions. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">She has also made us balanced as we had to do other things such as TOK, writing essays, reflections, and projects. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I have learned to be principled as there is a lot of work to be submitted all the time, and in class everyone is serious in learning. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Everyone is reflective about their physics learning so far. By writing this reflection, it shows that we are being reflective. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I feel I have become a lot better in communication, especially in the written form and in communicating scientific data and theories. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">-Which of the ones you have not been able to develop in the physics class and how would you inted to develop that? **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Open-mindedness and caring. But then again this is physics, and there is'nt a whole lot of caring involved. But I do feel that the classroom needs to be exposed to other sorts of information, ones that will challenge our assumptions and change our view of the world. **

=**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">TOK in Physics **= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">media type="custom" key="21649120"

==**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Knowledge Issue: How far is collaboration necessary for developing theories? **== Please refer to this excerpt on Sir Isaac Newton:
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Dated: 20th November 2012 **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">My view: **

Source: http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/edse456/apt/vignettes/newton.htm

"This colorful genius was a bit of a hypochondriac – he was always paranoid and fearful that other people would steal his ideas. In fact, very few models Newton made or used are still intact today, as he destroyed them almost as soon as he was done with them, so that no one else could steal his ideas. As a result, Newton never collaborated with any other scientists – all of Newton's achievements were solitary. In addition to his paranoia, Newton’s long-standing feud with Hooke continued even after Hooke’s death; after Newton became President of the Royal Society of London, he ordered all busts and portraits of Hooke destroyed! Newton also had a widely publicized dispute with Leibniz, a German mathematician, about his ideas for calculus. Leibniz claimed that he had come up with the ideas prior to Newton, whereas Newton claimed that Leibniz had plagiarized his ideas from notes of his that Leibniz may have inadvertently viewed. The majority of scientists at that time sided with Newton, but there is still some controversy over when and who came up with the ideas and proofs for differential calculus"

If Isaac Newtown, one of the greatest scientist of all time, had come up with his brilliant laws & theories all by himself in solitude, and even opposed collaboration with others, then this shows that collaboration is very much a waste of time.

==**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Q: To what extent are observations made by other people trusted by scientists for developing their own theories..? **==
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">A: To some extent. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">to what extent?...to some extent ..... haha wat an answer! **