Training Teachers on New Topics and New Tools in Physics Education

Sep 7, 2023, 5:20 PM
20m
T2 (MFF UK)

T2

MFF UK

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Department of Physics Education
Distance oral presentation Presentations/Workshops

Speakers

Matteo Luca Ruggiero (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Torino) Marta Rinaudo (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino) Marina Serio (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino)

Description

We report the result of a collaboration among Universities, Schools, and Institutions to increase interest in new tools and learning environments. To address this issue, we provide scientific and didactic support to teachers through different kinds of training sessions to introduce innovative didactic methodologies for teaching and learning. The project involved a training course both in streaming and carried-out sessions with university staff as well as secondary school teachers.
We selected current research themes such as climate change, space missions, and Einstein's relativity since they are not commonly included in the Physics curriculum; we suggested an approach based on some new methodologies and technologies to introduce these topics. We used microcontroller development boards for measuring environmental parameters, Artificial Intelligence, and data processing applied to Open Data from space missions or weather archives. We also suggested a new approach to teaching modern physics. For this purpose, we used a web-based platform to explore the basic concepts of relativistic physics by emphasizing its impact on Global Positioning Systems, which is of utmost importance in everyday life.

Contribution categories - primary focus Primary and secondary school
Contribution categories - type Application (shared experience, activity suggestions)

Primary authors

Andrea Piccione Matteo Luca Ruggiero (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Torino) Marta Rinaudo (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino) Anna Alessandra Massa (Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per il Piemonte) Daniela Marocchi (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino) Marina Serio (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino) Tommaso Marino (AIF - Torino)

Presentation materials