Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2017 Annual Fall Meeting of the APS Ohio-Region Section
Volume 62, Number 18
Friday–Saturday, October 13–14, 2017; Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Session G1: Plenary Talk: Explicit Content and Spoilers: What we know about solving problems |
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Chair: Jennifer Blue, Miami University Room: Kreger Hall 319 |
Saturday, October 14, 2017 10:45AM - 11:30AM |
G1.00001: Explicit Content and Spoilers: What we know about solving problems Invited Speaker: Tom Fisher Take a moment and recognize that you are among a very elite population of people: You are an expert at solving physics problems. In that same moment ask yourself have you ever grappled with a problem that made you rethink how you thought about physics? If so, you have an innate talent for physics. However, the students in introductory physics classes are not experts in physics, or physics problem-solving, or the connection between them. There exists a huge gap between your problem-solving skills and those of your students. Fortunately physics education researchers, cognitive scientists, science educators, and a host of other scientists have been studying student learning and we know how people learn. We will take a few moments to discuss what is known about teaching students to become more competent problem-solvers. [Preview Abstract] |
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