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Robert Ryshke

Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 1 views

harvardmagazine.com/...twilight-of-the-lecture

education teaching methods

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  • Robert Ryshke on 26 Feb 12
     
    In 1990, after seven years of teaching at Harvard, Eric Mazur, now Balkanski professor of physics and applied physics, was delivering clear, polished lectures and demonstrations and getting high student evaluations for his introductory Physics 11 course, populated mainly by premed and engineering students who were successfully solving complicated problems. Then he discovered that his success as a teacher "was a complete illusion, a house of cards." THIS IS A MUST READ ARTICLE!
Chris Harrow

CiteULike: Stereotype Threat and Women's Performance in Physics - 0 views

www.citeulike.org/...10655688

physics girls stereotype

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  • Chris Harrow on 10 May 12
     
    Wonder if there are parallel implications in math?
  • judy osborne on 11 May 12
     
    There are actually! Come by my office and check out the book: Whistling Vivaldi by Claude Steele who's work these studies are based on. There are also really interesting results that pertain to race and stereotype threat which can inform our teaching practices to cater to students most impacted...
Chris Harrow

Why great ideas come when you aren't trying : Nature News & Comment - 3 views

www.nature.com/...when-you-aren-t-trying-1.10678

creativity mind neuroscience wandering

shared by Chris Harrow on 26 May 12 - No Cached
  • A study now suggests that simply taking a break does not bring on inspiration — rather, creativity is fostered by tasks that allow the mind to wander.
  • From an evolutionary perspective, mind-wandering seems totally counterproductive and has been viewed as dysfunctional because it compromises people’s performance in physical activities. However, Baird’s work shows that allowing the brain to enter this state when it is considering complex problems can have real benefits. Zoning out may have aided humans when survival depended on creative solutions.
  • Chris Harrow on 26 May 12
     
    Some evidence that 100% "time on task" might actually be counterproductive if you want to develop creativity.
  • Ted Sadtler on 27 May 12
     
    Thanks Chris. I'm currently reading Jonah Lehrer's "Imagine: How Creativity Works." lots of tie-ins with this research (Kounios is one of his main sources). I wonder if we can build such mind- wandering into our classes...do physics labs allow for "deliberate zoning out time"? Probably not.
Beth Holland

Webinar Series - 0 views

edtechteacher.org/...webinars

teaching Development Professional

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  • Beth Holland on 24 Mar 12
     
    EdTechTeacher has a great lineup of free, live, webinars this spring: Teaching Physics with Technology, Ken Davis to talk about Teaching History, Carla Beard to talk about Building a Community of Readers, and more. Their archived recordings are also available from this page.
Chris Harrow

Explore Mars, Inc. Launches the 2011-2012 Mars Education Challenge- ExploreMars.org - 0 views

www.exploremars.org/-2012-mars-education-challenge

Mars Challenge NASA Nye

shared by Chris Harrow on 17 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • MEC asks science educators who teach grades 7-12 to develop inspiring ways to fit Mars science and exploration into their “every day” classroom lessons – such as biology, chemistry, physics, geology, etc.  MEC empowers teachers to create lessons that will enable educators to teach these topics in new and interesting ways by using Mars as an example.
  • Chris Harrow on 17 Nov 11
     
    Curriculum challenge for Science teachers in grades 7-12.
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