Showing posts with label Teaching Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teaching Research. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 June 2013

What is so hard about research?

Jody Passanisi and Shara Peters have recently posted a guest blog on the Scientific American entitled What is so hard about research? which looks at the problems of getting students to think imaginatively about research and the available research tools, and commenting that they tend to look for quick and easy options rather than stop and think about the problem. In reply I have posted the following comment.