Re: [Phys-l] laptops banned from class.

["Julie Quah" <juliequah@gmail.com>]

I usually give hand-outs from PPS, removing essential informations and
replacing with probing questions that will lead them to the understanding of
the key ideas at the end of the lesson. Students who engage during lesson
learn much, students who are not so engaged are constantly called to give
their point of views, and others to comment or add on. But of cource it may
not be very feasible for such very interactive questioning kind of lessons
if the lecture hall and student population are large.




On 3/31/06, Anthony Lapinski <Anthony_Lapinski@pds.org> wrote:
> Physics is a highly visual subject. Like Hewitt, I teach concepts before
> calculations. We teachers love to talk and write. It's difficult for most
> students to figure out what's important in a lesson. Prepared notes give
> them the option of following along or writing stuff down. Peer instruction
> is also valuable -- have the students learn from each other. And most
> physics textbooks are very hard to read/understand. And trying to cover
> the entire book effectively is impossible. Less is more.
>
> Forum for Physics Educators <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu> writes:
> > Somewhere in this conversation we might want to address the need to
> > teach and reinforce what it means to "take good notes."  If we provide
> > all the materials all the time, some students never develop the skill to
> > pay attention and identify what's important.  This includes, in my mind,
> > the skill to take good laboratory notes and properly record data.
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