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Enhancing Scientific Inquiry Skills with Webcams and LoggerPro3 Software

Learn how to bridge the digital gap with millennial students using webcams as scientific instruments and move from cookbook labs to independent inquiries. Empower students through technology, encourage learner inquiry, and apply constructivist approaches in real-world situations.

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Enhancing Scientific Inquiry Skills with Webcams and LoggerPro3 Software

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  1. 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/

  2. 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!

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. COOKBOOK LABS INDEPENDENT INQUIRIES/ GUIDED DISCOVERY LABS Beginning of unit/ course End of unit/ course

  6. 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

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