Nobel physicist to give talk on teaching science and engineering

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Dr. Carl Wieman is with the Department of Physics and Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. He is a Nobel Laureate in Physics and Former Associate Director of Science, White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. He will be giving a talk titled, "A Scientific Approach to Teaching Science & Engineering."

Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science and engineering have advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. Guided primarily by tradition and dogma, science education meanwhile has remained largely medieval. Research on how people learn is now revealing much more effective ways to teach, learn, and evaluate learning than what is in use in the traditional science class. The combination of this research with information technology is setting the stage for a new approach to teaching and learning that can provide the relevant and effective science education for all students that is needed for the 21st century. Although the focus of the talk is on undergraduate science teaching, where the data is the most compelling, the underlying principles come from studies of the general development of expertise and apply widely.

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