Dr. Carl Wieman: Campus-wide Address
Dr. Wieman, Nobel Laureate in physics, has devoted his recent career to upgrading the effectiveness of the teaching and learning of science. EVERYONE IS INVITED
Carl Wieman
Campus-wide Address:
Science education for the 21st century:
Using the insights of science to teach/learn science
Carl Wieman
University of British Columbia and University of Colorado
Abstract
Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science has advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. Guided primarily by tradition and dogma, science education meanwhile has remained largely medieval. Research on how people learn is now revealing how many teachers badly misinterpret what students are thinking and learning from traditional science classes and exams. However, research is also providing insights on how to do much better. The combination of this research with modern information technology is setting the stage for a new approach that can provide the relevant and effective science education for all students that is needed for the 21st century. I will discuss the failures of traditional educational practices, even as used by “very good” teachers, and the successes of some new practices and technology that characterize this more effective approach, and how these results are highly consistent with findings from cognitive science.
Monday, October 12, 2009
4:00 pm
