4810/7810 Schedule

Week

Tues Readings

Thurs E/M Content

1) 8/23

Introduction: State of Affairs

Introduction

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

2) 8/30

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

Electric charge:

HRW: pp 505 -518

3) 9/6

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) 9/113

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

Elect. Potential

HRW: pp 565 - 585

5) 9/20

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

Capacitance

HRW: pp 590 -610

6) 9/27

Situated Cognition:

Brown, Collins, Duguid: Situated Cog.

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

Current / Resistance – Circuits

HRW: pp 610 - 632

7) 10/4

Possibly no class -- Rosh Hashannah

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)

8) 10/11

Assessment

TP: chapter 4 Assessment Practices: 69-90

Fall Break

9) 10/18

Assessment:
Teaching Physics: Chapter 5

Setting Goals (Chapter 3 (to pp 35) A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing

Voltage – Circuits HRW 633 - 653 /

10) 10/25

Attitudes and Beliefs:

PERC papers (design and app's)

grad: read the PRST paper

Magnets & Fields
Maryland Tutorials / HW analysis

11) 11/1

Analogy and learning physics

Using analogies in Teaching and Learning Physics

A new model for learning abstract ideas

Magnet / Elect. Interaction -

desing analogical models / analyze for mag field... and identify analogy in textbook problem.

(project outline due)

12) 11/8

Representation:

PERC paper 1 & 2: UG

PRST 1 & 2 Grads

Induction / Faraday - Ch31HRW

Analysis of representational formats ... Modify a textbook problem to appear 3 different ways

13) 11/15

Society and Purposeful Learning:

Mahajan, Bartlett and Fish

Order of Magnitude physics

14) 11/22

Gender & Race:

Steele and Sheibinger

(project draft due)

(gobble gobble – No Class)

15) 11/29

Progressivism or Context?

context and summary

16) 12/ 6

presentations

info about presentations

(project second draft due)

presentations (party)