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Dr. Gopnik described children as flittering butterflies. The description really captures the excited explorative minds of students. Students have a short attention span and a wild imagination. From her video, I really feel a drive to include various activities and techniques while teaching in order to expose the students to various representations of scienctific knowledge. I really loved science and the science experiments that we would engage in as well as demos that the teacher set up. The experiments broke up the mundane lecture style teachings that my high school chemistry teacher tended to use. I really liked how Dr. Gopnik's comparison of a child's attention span to a spotlight where they cannot focus on a single thing. Their lack of direct focus gives teachers a chance to bring real-world examples and applications to the textbook topics. The possibility of links is astronomical.

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