Re: Getting students interested in physics


shanefield@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> To get students interested in science, an easy explanation of MP3,
> digital, and related technology should do the trick. The magazine
> Audiophile Voice, which is run by the fomer editor of Audio Magazine,
> has an article that explains these things, complete with a free
> downloadable example. It is titled "Realistic MP3," and it appears in
> Volume 11,Issue 1. The explanations are very easy to read. Back issues
> such as that one can be obtained at
> http://www.audiophilevoice.com . Schools could possibly buy reprints of
> just that one article, in bulk, at deep discounts, on special request.
> (Such copies were handed out in a course at Georgetown U., recently.)
>
> An excerpt from the article can be read at this site, if you click on
> this URL:
> http://homepage.mac.com/shanefield/mp3/PhotoAlbum30.html
>
> Next month, in Issue 2 of Volume 11, there will be a similar article
> explaining "wi-fi" ("wireless"), along with wi-max, streaming,
> Bluetooth, and related new tech.

Are magazine sales so poor that you need to convince people that you
hold the key to strengthening levels of innate curiosity? There's not
even any physics in the stuff you linked. A bare hint at information
theory perhaps, but no physics.

And is it really someone's job to "make" kids interested in such
things? Should schools tell children what is cool? Must mass education
be only a desperate act of cultural territoriality by an older
generation? Only the kids themselves can decide what is relevant to
their lives. Remember what Bart Simpson said: "Well this is our day
Sir, and we do talk this way."

-Mark Martin

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