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Active Learning with Carl E. Wieman (2019)

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Off topic, but... does anyone know of a forum for exploratory discussion of science education content?

For examples, discussion of a web app with interactive physics equations with order-of-magnitude sliders showing user customizable landmarks and stories. Or sketching out a thorough mechanistic introduction to friction, building on an assumed firm grasp of nanoscale, as a supplement to the usual Amontons' law of large objects sliding on pig fat. Or exploring approaches to creating that firm grasp of nanoscale. In middle or primary school. Or supplementing Kindergarten taste and texture and perceptual material properties with Ashby-like charts of rheological quasiproperties (slimy, sticky, crunchy, chewy, etc). And so on, and on.

Like HN but for science and engineering folk with an education focus, education researchers, curriculum designers, etc. Any thoughts?

Anyone aware of discussions of these ideas? I'd be very interested in knowing of groups of serious educators who are exploring these ideas.

UBC does, or at least did, implement it across many of their physics and math courses. I'm not personally aware of on-going discussions, but there are many faculty members there and collaborators working on this stuff, as well as many students who served as the guinea pigs.

https://cwsei.ubc.ca/

Thanks for this; I have only just had a chance to have a look. (I am less interested in strategic thinking than I am in details. I have a text and I want to make it work better in some of these ways. So I ma asking: What kinds of questions? What kinds of graphics? ...) This looks very helpful.

UW's Physics Education Group, as well as Mazur's group, are a great reference.

Engineering education is a fairly sizeable research field with their own conferences and journals. STEM education also.

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