Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Joint Fall 2012 Meeting of the APS New England Section and the AAPT
Volume 57, Number 15
Friday–Saturday, November 9–10, 2012; Williamtown, Massachusetts
Session G1: Physics Education |
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Chair: Michael Seifert, Williams College Room: Wege Auditorium |
Saturday, November 10, 2012 11:30AM - 12:30PM |
G1.00001: What do the students need? Invited Speaker: David Hammer The instruction we offer students, at any level, presumably reflects what we believe will help them understand physics. But we don't often subject our beliefs to scrutiny. Most physics instructors work from common sense assumptions about what students need—clear explanations, demonstrations, motivation and practice. As in physics, however, common sense ideas (e.g. ``objects move because they are pushed'') aren't always correct. I will present evidence that these usual assumptions are insufficient and offer an expanded set of possibilities, focusing in particular on how students understand knowledge and learning. In some cases what students most need is help taking a different approach to learning, a ``refinement of everyday thinking'' (Einstein, 1936) rather than a reception of information. [Preview Abstract] |
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