Revised 4810/7810 Schedule
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Week of:

Tues PER Readings

Thurs Mechanics Content

1) 8/25

Introduction: State of Affairs

Introduction

Introduction / preface to your physics text & Concepts of Motion, x,v,a: Knight: vii– xvii & Chapter 1

identify Preliminary fieldsites

2) 9/1

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

Kinematics & 1-D Vectors:

3) 9/8

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

Vectors, & 2-D kinematics

Knight: 3 parts of Chap 6

identify course project

4) 9/15

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

Forces:

5) 9/22

Knowledge in Pieces:
TP:  rest of Chap 2 & 142-146
Changing Minds – diSessa;
(grads: DiSessa(2008) PRST

Dynamics & Forces & N3

6) 9/29

No Class

Rosh Hashannah

Situated Cognition & Context:
TP: review: ch 2 pp 29-30 and 36-40; pp 69-80;
Brown, Collins, Duguid:
vygotsky: chap to be distributed.

7) 10/6

Hidden Curriculum: Attitudes & beliefs:
TP:   chap 3 pp 51 – 68; TP; pp. 170 – 180 (Workshop Physics)
Elby & Elby/Hammer

Outline of project due

No Class

Yom Kippur

8) 10/13

More hidden curriculum
Perkins, PERC papers 2004, 2005
Metacognition
Attitudes & Belief-splits.

Conservation of Momentum
Knight Chapter 9 (or approp. chapter in your book)

C9) 10/20

Assessment
Redish: Chapter 5
Hake AJP 1999

Energy
Knight Chapt 10

10) 10/27

Inclusion (Gender & Race)
Schiebinger: Has Feminism Changed Science; Steele: Stereotype Threat: Dancy on Myth of Gender Neutrality

KE & Work
Chapter 11

11) 11/3

Society, Politics and Learning
Mahajan (AAPT 2004), Fish (NYT), Bartlett (PhysToday) & others

Rigid Bodies
Chapter 12, Knight

12) 11/10

Labs ProblemSolving & Metacognition
Etkina Papers PERC 2007
Cooper Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2008

Rotatioal Motion & Gravity
Focussing on Labs;
Knight Chap 12&13

13) 11/17

New Models of Learning:
Preparation for Future Learning
Schwartz
Metaphors of Learning- Sfard

(project draft due)

Oscillations
Knight Chapter 14

14) 11/24

Gobble

(gobble gobble – No Class)

15) 12/1

Historical Perspective
Dewey&Benezet

Context & Review

16) 12/ 8

presentations

info about presentations to be posted

(project second draft due (optional))

No Class

17) 12/ 16

Final Exam Period: Tues 16 Dec 1:30-4p (location TBD)

Presentations for those wanting to present