Teach Science Like Sports | Ron Dantowitz | TEDxBeaconStreet

Ever want to put tweezers in an electric outlet? Ron Dantowitz reminds us that the average person is smarter than the dumbest scientist, and even a 4-year old can do science. When schools "Teach Science Like Sports", natural curiosity leads students to put experiments in space and fly with NASA to watch a real asteroid impact Earth.
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Dantowitz is the Director of the Clay Center Observatory at Dexter Southfield, in Brookline, MA. An aeronautical engineer with six NASA achievement awards and 25 years of experience in science education, he has learned the most from being a dad of three naturally curious scientists.
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[@DawnBlum]

I love this he is so engaging and easy to follow. Never punish curiosity, teach from it. We all need to connect with the world to understand it.

[@vickimilstein9660]

This made my night, a scientist who appreciates the scientist in young children. Now that is on smart man!

[@liambutterfield1795]

Great job Ron. I really enjoyed watching and listening to your presentation.

[@user-nk5ph6xx4u]

Aside from the presentation more so I really like his tie. heheh, would love to wear that teaching physics to my students....

[@ZevHoover]

fantastic.

[@michelegh5382]

This is wonderful! Teach science like sports, and pay excellent teachers like pro athletes.

[@xerkules2851]

I think the talk would be better with some data. He says punishment discourages curiosity, and that makes sense, but he doesn't present any actual evidence for that claim. He advocates changing the way science is taught, but does not use scientific evidence for his own claims.