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The most important starting point for improving the understanding of science is undoubtedly an adequate scientific education at school. Public attitudes towards science owe much the way science is taught in these institutions. (71)_____ ,7,x9qE"
Today, school is what most people come into (72) _____ H6X]D"Y,
contact with a formal instruction and explanation of science for the first rime, at least in a systematic way. It is at this point which the foundations are laid for an interest in science. (73)_____ ~n9BN'@x
What is taught (and how) in this first encounter will largely determine an individual’s view of the subject in adult life. kKFmTo
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towards science may help us to modify them. Most education system neglect exploration understanding and reflection. (75)_____ ]`)50\pdw
Teachers in schools tend to present science as a collection of facts, often by more detail than necessary. As a result, (76)_____ nQ2V
children memorize processes such as mathematical formulas, periodic table, only to forget it shortly afterwards. (77)_____ YzJ\< tkp
The task of learning facts and concepts, one at a time, makes learning laborious, boring and efficient. Such a purely (78)_____ A@-nn]
empirical approach, which consists of observation and description, is also, in a sense, unscientific or incomplete. There is therefore a need for resources and methods of teaching that facilitates a deep understanding of science in (79)_____ (1p[K-J)r
an enjoyable way. Science should not only be “fun” in the same way as playing a video game, but ‘hard fun’ – a deep feeling of connection made possibly only by imaginative engagement.(80)_____ U\'.rT[#
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Until recently, dyslexia and other reading problems were a mystery to most teachers and parents. As a result, too many kids passed through schools without master the printed page. (71) ____ }w .[ZeP
Some were treated as mentally deficient, many were left functionally illiterate(文盲的), unable to ever meet their potential. But in the last several years, there’s been a revolution in that we’ve learned about reading and dyslexia. (72) ____ ZLw7-H6Fh
Scientists are using a variety of new imaging techniques to watch the brain at work. Their experiments have shown that reading disorders are most likely the result of what is, in an effect, (73) ____ Qfx(+=|
faulty writing in the brain — not lazy, stupidity or a poor home(74) ____ rKEi1b
environment. There’s also convincing evidence which dyslexia (75) ____ OEmz`JJ67
is largely inherited. It is now considered a chronic problem for some kids, not just a “phase”. Scientists have also discarded another old stereotype that almost all dyslexics are boys. Studies indicate that many girls are affecting as well (76) ___ Wh6jr=>G
and not getting help. At same time, educational researchers have come up (77) ____ fWie fv[&
with innovative teaching strategies for kids who are having trouble learning to read. New screening tests are identifying children at risk before they get discouraged by year of (78) ____ mpfc2>6Il.
frustration and failure. And educators are trying to get the message to parents that they should be on the alert for the first signs of potential problems. jq#gFt*
It’s an urgent mission. Mass literacy is a relative new (79) ____ !dQG 5v
social goal. A hundred years ago people didn’t need to be good readers in order to earn a living. But in the Information Age, no one can get by with knowing how to read well and (80) ____ cr Hd$~q,
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The National Endowment for the Arts recently released the results of its " Reading at Risk " survey, which described the movement of the American public away from books and literature and toward television and electronic media. According to the survey, "Reading is on the decline on every region, (62)_____ within every ethnic group, and at every educational level." DZo7T!
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