Bringing to inconsistent science education

In a world full of misinformation, Jiophizist Philip Heron is on a mission to share the benefits of significant thinking.

He is the founder of a program called Think Like a Scientist, which he leads in the UK, and now brought to Canada.

This is a brief course – only seven weeks long – that it is taught in schools, but more surprisingly in jails.

And for some of them who have experienced the program, it is going to change life.

Dalton Harrison, a former contestant who attended the first program session presented in a jail, is now completing a masters degree in Criminology.

Harrison said, “When I got out, (Phil) approached me to talk at Durham University … and this was my first thing,” said Harrison. “That moment changed my life. Standing in front of that lecture hall, I never dreamed in a life … so that I wanted to live in the educationist.”

As a one -day job, Heron teaches the Physical and Environmental Sciences Department at the University in Toronto’s Scarborough Campus, and runs the program in summer, including many Canadian prisons.

He says that he designed Think like a scientist to teach scientific methods to those who do not necessarily see themselves as science students, including people who have been disorganized.

Importance of failure

Heron says that one of his objectives is to help people understand that failure – in life, as in science – may be the path of success.

Heron says that many people in the jail have had negative experiences with traditional education methods for several reasons, including learning differences, breeds, gender, square or neurodiocency. So he avoids structuring his program like a traditional class, and instead encourages interactions about the subject he is presenting.

Some of the discovered subjects are climate change, earthquake, robotics, space mission and sleep science. One of the major points in this course is the idea of ​​embracing failure. Heron says that it is a fundamental part of the scientific process.

“Behind the curtain, scientists fail so many times that it is just common,” Heron said Quirks & Quarks Host Bob McDonald. “And in fact I want to teach students what students in jail, as well as students at the University of Toronto, (is). This failure is part of the process and it is something that should be accepted.”

“We don’t fail yet and stop, we fail and move forward.”

In part of his course about space exploration, Heron shared a quotes of a Canadian astronaut David st. About this Management of mental health In space, given that when conflict arises, you do not have to go anywhere and you are far away from the people you love.

“I am like finishing … like the whole room, ‘This is a gel! Throw in terrible food and you have got a gel. I can be an astronaut!” ,

Opening new possibilities for chaos

Some alumni in the UK, such as Phoenix Griffin, say they were so inspired by the course that they have gone to pursue their own academic career.

Griffin said, “The biggest thing that I had taken away from it was the confidence to try new things.”

“It just gave me a new way to think. You learn from your mistakes so that it is fine if you consider it wrong. So it was really big for me.”