Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Spring 2017 Joint Meeting of the Texas Section of AAPT, Texas Section of APS, and Zone 13 of the Society of Physics Students
Volume 62, Number 3
Thursday–Saturday, March 9–11, 2017; San Antonio, Texas
Session A1: Plenary Session I |
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Chair: William Waggoner, San Antonio College Room: McAllister Auditorium Auditorium |
Friday, March 10, 2017 8:15AM - 8:25AM |
A1.00001: Welcome |
Friday, March 10, 2017 8:25AM - 9:01AM |
A1.00002: Plenary: The Modern Professor's Teaching Toolkit Invited Speaker: Timothy Slater University professors start each new year with increasingly diverse groups of undergraduate students populating their introductory science survey courses.~ By and large, the current cadre of faculty teachers fully understand the value and importance of having a wide diversity of students who understand and contribute to the scientific enterprise; yet, few professors have had the opportunity to learn how to best teach the quickly broadening range of contemporary student audiences in multi-cultural classrooms.~ Successfully teaching an ever-increasing diversity of students requires professors to have a flexible toolkit of various teaching strategies. Today's professors need to be able to do far more than deliver information accurately with illustrations to their students. Instead, professors need to be able to also manage two-way interactions with students through real-time questioning and providing multiple, alternate representations of ideas. Strategies based on students voting on question choices and completing collaborative group activities during class is one approach. Another approach is to use in-class time for students to do research projects while allocating outside of class time to reading and listening to Internet-delivered lectures. Today's professors need wide variety of strategies at the ready to be able to help all students learn. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, March 10, 2017 9:01AM - 9:37AM |
A1.00003: Plenary: Physics and Music Invited Speaker: Gordon Ramsey I will trace a typical work of music from composition to emotional reaction. It starts with the printed page as a reflection of the composer's ideas and goes through the stages of, the artist's interpretation and performance, the technical aspects of instruments generating the sound waves, the physiological perception by the audience and culminating with an emotional reaction. The technical aspects of creating sound will be illustrated by recent research in a comparative study of stringed instruments. This presentation will address what goes into the production and performance of the sound resulting in an emotion of the audience. [Preview Abstract] |
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