Conveners
W3-1 Creating Authentic Physics Learning Experiences (DPE) | Créer d'authentiques expériences d'apprentissage en physique (DEP)
- Chitra Rangan (University of Windsor)
The Canadian Light Source is the country’s national synchrotron research facility. At its core is the largest particle accelerator in Canada – a 174m circumference storage ring, housed in a building the size of a football stadium. As is usual for facilities of this type, we have hosted thousands of researchers from all over the country and around the world. What is somewhat less usual is that...
The sky on a clear night is one of the most fascinating natural sights, providing multiple (and free!) promotion opportunities for physics. The talk will describe the recent astronomy-related outreach activities at the Grenfell Campus if the Memorial University of Newfoundland, leading to more than doubling enrollments in our physics courses, as well as several methods ensuring that the...
Searching for information online has been an integral part of our lives for quite some time now. But many instructors - and students - will consider googling information to solve an assignment as cheating, perhaps thinking only of assignments that aim at lower levels of learning. How can we integrate online search in tutorials in a meaningful way, to make problem solving more authentic and...
We examine a way to deal with alternative student conceptions about force and motion in a university introductory physics course. The course combines Reflective Writing, an activity that engages students in textual material metacognitively, and Labatorials, an in-class active learning intervention. The analysis is based on both pre- and post- interview statements, to give a picture of the...
