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Developing the skills of scientific inquiry with webcams and Vernier’s LoggerPro3 software. Michael Komljenovic Abbey Park High School Halton District School Board STAO 2005 My Website-http://chatt.hdsb.ca/~komljenovicm My Blog-http://novemberlearning.com/blogs/komljenovicm/. Agenda
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Developing the skills of scientific inquiry with webcams and Vernier’s LoggerPro3 software. Michael Komljenovic Abbey Park High School Halton District School Board STAO 2005 My Website-http://chatt.hdsb.ca/~komljenovicm My Blog-http://novemberlearning.com/blogs/komljenovicm/
Agenda • Closing the digital disconnect with the millennial students. • Webcams as a scientific instrument: developing inquiry skills • Assessing & evaluating scientific inquiries. • Moving from cookbook labs to independent inquiries. • Lessons learned from practice • Time to play!
Millennial Students (born 1980 – 2000) Closing the gap between internet-savvy students and their schools. Millennials are the first generation that have grown up surrounded by digital media.
Webcams as a Scientific Instrument: Developing Inquiry Skills • Empowering students through technology and a constructivist approach. • students use new technological modeling tools & software • students carry out activities that are much more like real science • encourages learner inquiry, students can learn the nature of science as a model of reality • acknowledges the critical role of experience in learning; learning as a process • nurtures learners natural curiosity • bases itself on the principles of the cognitive theory, “brains-on” approach • supports cooperative learning • involves learners in real world situations
COOKBOOK LABS INDEPENDENT INQUIRIES/ GUIDED DISCOVERY LABS Beginning of unit/ course End of unit/ course
References “A Modeling Method for High School Physics Instruction”, Malcolm Wells, David Hestenes, & Gregg Swackhammer. “” Am. J. Phys., 63(7) (1995): 606-619 http://modeling.asu.edu/modeling-HS.html Millennials at Work http://www.generationsatwork.com/articles/millenials.htm Vernier Softwarehttp://www.vernier.com/index.html What can a physics teacher do with a computer? Joe Redish http://www.physics.umd.edu/perg/papers/redish/resnick.html http://www.physics.umd.edu/perg/papers/redish/resnick2.html http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Book/ on-line book - The Physics Suite