After Comunicare Fisica 2010, the 3rd edition of the workshop about communication in physics, I decide to present you my notes about Peter Dourmashkin's talk:
Peter Dourmashkin at Comunicare Fisica
Dourmashkin presentation is very interesting. He speaks about a learning experiment in US classrooms: Dourmashkin himself enters in classroom to intercact with students and explain theory and experiments. For example, he proposes us a video with one oh his lessons: after the explanation to the board, he walks through the classroom in order to see stundents' activity, to quest and suggest reflections.
One of the most interesting slide is about the properties of
Learning Objects (LO):
- Create an engaging and technologically enabled active learning environment
- Move away from passive lecture/recitation format
- Incorporate hands-on experiments
- Enhance conceptual understanding
- Enhance problem-solving ability
In a broader definition of LO, we can add also the following properties:
- Develop communication skills in core sciences
- Develop collaborative learning
- Reduce gender gap
- Develop new teaching/learning resources
Must interesting is the rethinking about teaching roles instructor:
- graduate teaching assistants: learn to teach
- undergraduate teaching assistants: encourages student teaching
- students: peer instructors
