Aug 24, 2010

A men for Science Education after receiveng his Nobel Prize

Carl Wieman, is a Nobel Laureate in Physics. He gave in the last years a series of lectures about the scientific assesment of teaching science.

On of these lectures about how to teach science given at Harvard can be seen here.

The conclusions are refreshing: there is a way of teaching science outside the laboratories too.

One of the tools he is suggesting is modelling of real experiments. He developedd and made freely available a set of basic experiments.

You can have a look to these and use them at the website of the Colorado University here.

In his lectures he is refering to a book abour expertieze end experts, The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. Seems to be a relevant book int this topic:


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