Summer Seminars on Teaching Introductory Physics Using Interactive Methods and Computers

该项目使入门物理教师能够发展 教学，计算和实验室接口技能， 需要帮助他们的学生通过使用计算机学习物理， 对真实的世界现象的探索 为期两周的研讨会是 1991年夏天，30所大学开始招生， 1992年夏天，将再次举办一次大学教师培训班， 30多名本科教师。 受试者将留在 与彼此联系，并通过研讨会讲师 在每一个学术年期间，在每次研讨会之后， 进行。 夏季研讨会涵盖的主题包括：互动 基于教育研究成果的教学策略; 计算机接口;使用电子表格和绘图软件包; 数据和误差分析技术;实验室应用 接口和真实的时间数据分析，以演讲演示; 以及数值问题解决和建模。

The project is enabling introductory physics teachers to develop the instructional, computing and laboratory interfacing skills they need to help their students learn physics by using the computer in the exploration of real world phenomena. A two-week seminar is being offered in the summer of 1991 for thirty college and university teachers and will be repeated in the summer of 1992 for thirty more undergraduate teachers. Participants will remain in contact with one another and with the seminar instructors via a BITNET teleconference during the academic year after each seminar is conducted. Topics covered in the summer seminars include: interactive instructional strategies based on outcomes of educational research; computer interfacing; use of spreadsheets and graphing packages; data and error analysis techniques; the application of laboratory interfacing and real time data analysis to lecture demonstrations; and numerical problem solving and modeling.