Welcome to the Science Education Seminar Wiki
The Science Teaching Center
Department of Education, Curriculum & Instruction
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Physics Education Research Group
Check here for the latest information about the seminar, get presenter's notes, transcripts, and to add your own content
When?
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Where?
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11:30pm-1pm
every other Monday during the semester
-alternating with the PERG research meeting
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Physics Building
room 1305a
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Schedule:
Jan 18: Jessica Watkins: Gender Differences in Student Experiences of Peer Instruction
Feb 1: practice for job talk: Renee Michelle Goertzen
Feb 15: *No Seminar: AAPT winter meeting in session*
Mar 1: Victoria Winters (visiting from SDSU/UCSD) <abstract>
Mar 15: No Seminar: spring break
Mar 29: prepare your mind for Matty Lau's dissertation defense!!
Apr 12: Tiffany Sikorski
Apr 26: *canceled*
May 10: Luke Conlin, Towards a Manifold Ontology of...er, Units? <abstract>
What is the Science Education Seminar?
The Science Education Program Seminar bi-weekly meeting where professors, students, and those interested in research in science education can interact, present research (at any stage of progress), and engage in lively critical discussion. Presentations range from completed, polished talks to open-ended discussions around a potential research question.
Ghosts of Seminars Past: Fall '08 > Spring '09 > Fall '09
Suggestions?
If you have any ideas about a speaker to invite or a paper to read or anything else regarding the seminar, please put it here:
suggested speakers:
Joel Kuipers, Dept. of Anthropology, The George Washington University
Zaynep Tufekci, Dept. Sociology & Anthropology, UMBC
suggested readings:
- "Multiple Drafts Versus the Cartesian Theater", Chapter 5 (pp 101-138) in Dennett, D. (1991). Consciousness Explained. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Co. (pdf)
- Viechnicki, G. B., & Kuipers, J. (2006). "It's all human error!": When a school science experiment fails. Linguistics and Education. 17(2), 107-130. (pdf)
- Pinker, S. (2007). The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature. New York: Viking. (pdf coming soon)
- Schoenfeld, A. H. (2002). A highly interactive discourse structure. Social Constructivist Teaching, 9, 131-169. (pdf)
- (your suggestion goes here)
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