Helping the Lab Feel More Familiar
Amanda Baker,
Scientific American,
Apr 27, 2018
I think a lot about the idea of knowing things that other people just take for granted, things that may have been part of their childhood experiences, but not of mine (or vice versa). This article looks at just some of them - the skills learned in a kitchen, for example, Or, from the perspective of science, the skills learned in a lab. Some of these cross over; some do not. The author wants to cast these as breeding " resilience, creative problem solving, and mastery of technical skills," but these are just empty words that really mean "knowing how to cook," "knowing how to apply make-up," "knowing how to weld," and similar capacities that are later so useful in learning science and technology.
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