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"The Large Hadron Collider" Tony Liss The Large Hadron Collider, in Geneva, Switzerland took more than 10 years to build and hosts more than 5000 physicists trying to understand the tiniest building blocks of the Universe. I'll review what we know and what we don't know about how the Universe works and give an up-to-the-minute status report of searches for missing pieces like the Higgs boson and dark matter. |
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to Excel: Opportunities and risks of the national initiative Tim Stelzer In February the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology wrote a report to the president titled: "Engage to Excel: Producing one million additional college graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics." This talk will briefly review the recommendations of this report, as well as some of the steps we have taken at the University of Illinois to provide transformative and sustainable change in STEM education. |
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"Interactive Online Labs: Hands-on activities exactly when you need them" Mats Selen Labs can play an important role in introductory physics classes, however they can also present serious pedagogical and administrative challenges. Are students experiencing the hands-on activities when they need it most? Is group-work the best approach for all experiments? How can we deal with increasing class sizes and dwindling budgets without diminishing the lab experience? In this talk I will describe and demonstrate the innovative new Interactive Online Laboratory system being developed by members of the Physics Education Research Group at the University of Illinois. This system will allow individual students to perform sophisticated hands-on activities anywhere they have access to a computer, using inexpensive wireless data acquisition hardware that they own themselves, guided by an online learning framework that delivers content, displays and analyses data, and assesses performance.
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"Flex Paced Flipped Mastery Physics" Rob White and Bill Sadler Physics is flipped on its head with over 60 explorations during the year. With lecture moved out of the class as homework and learning activities in the classroom, students are actively involved in an individual, deep understanding of the topics at hand. Your students create a log book that averages 30-40 pages per chapter. Using direct, peer, or one-to-one instruction the teachers are free to spend valuable class time helping students, doing learning activities, and using online video and tools such as Phets, and Gizmos. Add Moodle functions and mastery learning and the students are able to work at their own pace. Using check-in procedure, podcasts, in-class activities and mastery tests students are able to truly LEARN rather than play the drill and test game. This method applies to any of the sciences and can easily be transformed to other disciplines. Come to our presentation and explore the possible. With today's movement towards student growth you cannot wait another year to engage your learners. |
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"Support to Excel: Professional development for in-service teachers" Morten Lundsgaard In its recent report, "Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics", the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recommends stronger connections between high schools and colleges. In this talk, I will discuss different approaches to establishing connections between high school physics teachers and colleges, in particular a program for in-service teachers that the physics department of UIUC is developing. |
