Conveners
W4-3 Labs I (DPE) / Laboratoires I (DEP)
- Chitra Rangan (University of Windsor)
In order to give our students the opportunity to learn collaboratively in our introductory physics labs, we developed a series of hour-long collaborative activities that students engaged with via Zoom using the IOLab lesson player. We envisioned and developed the activities to revolve around four student roles (experimentalist, theorist, archivist, and manager) to help students share their...
The pandemic timeline has turn out to be much longer than initially expected, and the need for a remote teaching still remains. The immediate switch to the remote teaching that happened due to COVID-19 in March 2020, not surprisingly, had the greatest detrimental effect on laboratory components of physics courses. Smaller courses during summer time allowed us to test different approaches and...
I will share my experiences and lessons learned implementing the Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) approach in a large online introductory class of hundreds of students. The ISLE approach is based on two intentionalities (Brookes, Etkina, & Planinsic 2020): (1) We want students to learn physics by thinking like physicists; by engaging in knowledge-generating activities that...
