Conveners
R1-8 Interactive Teaching - Teaching with Technology (DPE) / Enseignement interactif et à l'aide de la technologie (DEP)
- Martin Williams (University of Guelph)
Robert Beichner
(North Carolina State University)
6/18/15, 8:45 AM
Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
How do you keep a classroom of 100 undergraduates actively learning? Can students practice communication and teamwork skills in a large class? How do you boost the performance of underrepresented groups? The SCALE-UP Project has addressed all these questions. Classes in all the STEM areas plus many in the humanities are currently being offered at more than 250 institutions around the world....
Calvin Kalman
(Concordia University)
6/18/15, 9:15 AM
Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
It has been argued that for novice students to acquire a full understanding of scientific texts, they also need to pursue a recurrent construction of their comprehension of scientific concepts. The course dossier method has students examine concepts in multiple passes; first through reflective writing on text before it is considered in the classroom, next in a one page essay at the end of the...
Ms
Mandana (Mandy) Sobhanzadeh
(Mount Royal University)
6/18/15, 9:30 AM
Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)
Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)
The language of science is a language that scientists use to talk about nature. Students are not familiar with this language and as a result they have great difficulty understanding scientific texts. Students trend to memorize the materials that they see in the textbook without thinking about their meaning, because they believe that language and words hold the knowledge and they need to use...
Dr
Marina Milner-Bolotin
(The University of British Columbia)
6/18/15, 9:45 AM
Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
Questioning is a key physics teaching skill. It relies on teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) (Shulman, 1986) and willingness to engage students in inquiry. A number of technology-enhanced pedagogies that promote conceptual science questions’ use have been developed lately (Keller et al., 2007). One of the most common is Peer Instruction (Lasry, 2008; Mazur, 1997; Milner-Bolotin,...
Daria Ahrensmeier
(Simon Fraser University)
6/18/15, 10:00 AM
Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
Based on the findings from decades of Physics Education research (PER), many physics instructors today use student-centered teaching methods to support active or inquiry based learning. One method that is getting increasingly popular is the flipped classroom, where students watch the “lecture” on video, at their own pace, and use the valuable class time to work on problems together.
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