Title: Seminari della Didattica della Fisica, Carl Wieman
Speaker: Carl Wieman, Standford University
Where and when: 09-05-2024 | 15:00 | Aula Rostagni

URL sito web:https://pls.scienze.unipd.it/fisica/wieman1/

Registration: How to learn to think like a good physicist and how to teach it

Abstract: For many years, my group has been studying what makes up high level performance (“expertise”) in Science and Engineering, and how that expertise is best learned and taught. Being a good physicist primarily involves being able to solve novel authentic physics related problems. I will discuss how the combination of research on the development of expertise and our recent studies of the nature of Science and Engineering problem solving provides guidance for how to best learn that skill. This learning requires practicing calling on relevant knowledge to make a specific set of decisions that frame the problem-solving process of experts. I will explain how to carry out this practice in the context of physics research and courses and discuss the research behind this approach.