Revised 4810/7810 Schedule (as of 11/17)

Week

Tues Readings

Thurs E/M Content

1) 8/24

Introduction: State of Affairs

Introduction

-read the introduction / preface to your physics text: HRW: v - xxii

2) 8/31

Survey of Field
TP: pp  5- 15
McDermott I
Van Heuvelen

Electric charge:

HRW: pp 505 -518

3) 9/7

Content-based research:
TP: pp 115 – 123; 146 - 152
Tutorials: McDermott II
Instructional strategies: Mazur Ch 2

Electric Field / Flux / Gauss’ Law

HRW: pp 521 - 557

4) 9/14

Constructivism:
TP: Chap 2 (over the next 4 weeks) pp 30-36 and 40-42; 124 -141
Posner: (grads)
Constructionism  - Papert

(no class)

5) 9/21

Knowledge in Pieces:
TP:  Chap 2 18-29 and 42-43; 142-146
Changing Minds – diSessa;  (handed out)

Elect. Potential

HRW: pp 565 - 585

6) 9/28

Small Pieces and Big Concepts:

Elby (2004): What students’ learning…

TP: chapter 4 Assessment Practices: 69-90

(no class) – Fall Break

7) 10/5

Situated Cognition:

Brown, Collins, Duguid: Situated Cog.

TP: cont ch 2 pp 29-30 and 36-40

Capacitance

HRW: pp 590 -610

8) 10/12

Hidden Curriculum: Attitudes & beliefs:

TP: ch 2 43 – 50;  chap 3 pp 51 – 68; TP; pp. 170 – 180 (Workshop Physics)

Elby & Hammer On the substance of a sophisticated Epistemology…(optional)

Elby, Helping Physics Students Learn How to Learn (optional)

Current / Resistance – Circuits

HRW: pp 610 - 632

9) 10/19

Assessment:
Teaching Physics: Chapter 5

Voltage – Circuits HRW 633 - 653 / Setting Goals (Chapter 3 (to pp 35) A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing)

10) 10/26

Problem Solving
Finney - paper
Mayer - paper grads (ugrad optional)

Magnets & Fields
Appropriate problems

(project outline due)

11) 11/2

Inclusion (Gender & Race)
Schiebinger -
Steele

Magnet / Elect. Interaction /
gender / race in the classroom

12) 11/9

Progressivism:

Dewey: Experience and Education Ch 1,2,7,8

Benezet: Teaching Arithmetic

Induction / Faraday - Ch31HRW

progressivism in the classroom

13) 11/16

Society and Purposeful Learning:

Mahajan, Bartlett and Fish

Order of Magnitude physics

14) 11/23

Technology & learning

(project draft due)

(gobble gobble – No Class)

15) 11/30

Context - Summary Discussion

context and summary

16) 12/ 7

presentations

info about presentations

(project second draft due)

presentations (party)