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Where Do Our Students Encounter Materials: Everywhere and Rarely

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

George O. Zimmerman  and
Isa Kaftal Zimmerman
George O. Zimmerman
Affiliation:
Boston University, Physics Department Boston, MA 02215
Isa Kaftal Zimmerman
Affiliation:
IKZAdvisors, LLC Boston, MA 02215
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Abstract

In our increasingly digitized and safety conscious society, we tend to shield our children form real contact with the material world and tend to steer them increasingly to only virtual experiences. Appliances are not repaired but replaced. So are materials used in everyday life. As a consequence, we cannot assume experiences with materials which were a given in the past. In this article, we will concentrate on both K-12 and Undergraduate education with examples of the necessity of consciously encountering “materials” in our increasingly digital society, and how students can be taught to realize the properties and necessity of consciously encountering materials. We will draw our examples from the lack of that experience students bring to undergraduate research, and how that deficiency can be remedied.

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educationelementalenvironmentally benign
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1762: Symposium AAA – Undergraduate Research in Materials Science—Impacts and Benefits , 2015 , mrsf14-1762-aaa06-07
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2015 

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