Conveners
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- Chairman: Andreja Šarlah
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- Chairman: Sergej Faletič
Creating the conditions to foster the development of children’s scientific thinking in early childhood education services is a very stimulating cultural project based on the most recent psychological research findings. According to these findings, we present a brief theoretical overview of the reference framework we used to promote the growth of scientific thinking in some Italian...
Effective and high-quality science teaching involves complex practices that depend on teachers' professional knowledge. Researchers have investigated the nature of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) predominantly in the in-service secondary school teachers’ context. This research project aims to investigate the PCK construct through video analysis focusing on pre-service primary teachers and...
In Physics Education Research (PER), Hake’s learning gain is widely used to measure students’ improvements. As learning gain tries to emphasise students’ progression in learning, in the same manner, we used teaching gain to measure the trend in changing teaching practices. To define teaching gain, we referred to teachers’ development of new habits of mind and practices when they start to adopt...
Peer Instruction is an effective lecturing method in physics but introduces a high demand on student preparedness. Some of the existing methods of increasing student preparedness have problems concerning learning effectiveness, student usage, and alignment with knowledge needs. We made introductory videos to address these problems and used a survey and interviews to investigate its success....
The present communication aims at proving the benefit of an open inquiry approach of physics instruction for college students, as compared to traditional lecture-based teaching strategies. The challenges presented by the emergence of Artificial Intelligence, are major societal issues to the academic culture. We propose to demonstrate that higher levels of thinking abilities can be achieved by...
We present a possible route to introduce the key concepts of quantum superposition and entanglement to secondary school students and to the general public avoiding mathematical difficulties. Our narrative is based on the description of key experimental findings, starting from Stern-Gerlach and Feynman double-slit experiments to the experimental proof of the violation of Bell’s inequalities by...
Visualizing multi-qubit systems is challenging due to their high complexity. We present the dimensional circle notation (DCN) as an extension of the so-called circle notation that is used in introductory quantum computing courses to reduce mathematical hurdles. By doing so, we reveal entanglement properties of such systems and make measurements and unitary operations in multi-qubit systems...
Teaching and learning Quantum Mechanics in secondary school is a unique challenge, at once requiring creativity, experimental, and mathematical literacies. Educating students to quantum science and technologies can therefore also be an opportunity to empower them with new ways of thinking, and the skills needed to navigate uncertain futures. However, engaging storytelling and interactive tools...
In this work we report on the results of the first refinement cycle of a teaching learning sequence based on the educational reconstruction of quantum information and computation at the level of secondary school. The results will serve as the base for refinements and improvements of the sequence, in view of a new testing cycle bound to start in late spring 2023.
