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A pedagogical approach to the Boltzmann factor through experiments and simulations
2009
The Boltzmann factor is the basis of a huge amount of thermodynamic and statistical physics, both classical and quantum. It governs the behaviour of all systems in nature that are exchanging energy with their environment. To understand why the expression has this specific form involves a deep mathematical analysis, whose flow of logic is hard to see and is not at the level of high school or college students' preparation. We here present some experiments and simulations aimed at directly deriving its mathematical expression and illustrating the fundamental concepts on which it is grounded. Experiments use easily available apparatuses, and simulations are developed in the Net-Logo environment…
Enseñanza de las ciencias : revista de investigación y experiencias didácticas
2021
Resumen. La conservación de la energía es uno de los conceptos más importantes de la física porque unifi ca todos los fenómenos. En este artículo presentamos algunos resultados de una investigación sobre el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje del concepto de energía y su conservación realizado en el nivel de la educación secundaria española. El análisis de los datos pone de manifiesto que la conservación de la energía se introduce en mecánica y termodinámica pero no en todos los campos de la física. Los resultados experimentales se han utilizado para desarrollar un nuevo enfoque de la enseñanza de la energía. Palabras clave. Energía, educación en física, actividades de enseñanza. Summary. The …
The elastic body model: a pedagogical approach integrating real time measurements and modelling activities
2007
In this paper, we describe a pedagogical approach to elastic body movement based on measurements of the contact times between a metallic rod and small bodies colliding with it and on modelling of the experimental results by using a microcomputer-based laboratory and simulation tools. The experiments and modelling activities have been built in the context of the laboratory of mechanical wave propagation of the two-year graduate teacher education programme of Palermo’s University. Some considerations about observed modifications in trainee teachers’ attitudes in utilizing experiments and modelling are discussed.
Struggling with L2 alphabet: The role of proficiency in orthographic learning
2023
The present study examined the process of L2 orthographic learning in bilinguals with distant L1–L2 orthographies. Chinese–English bilinguals with various English proficiency levels were trained with novel L2 words during a reading task. In contrast to higher proficient learners, those with lower L2 proficiency exhibited increased effects of length, frequency, and lexicality across exposures and at-chance recognition of trained words. Importantly, an additional post-training task assessing the lexical integration of trained words evidenced the engagement in different L1–L2 reading strategies across different levels of L2 proficiency, hence suggesting the L1 holistic processing at the base …
Estudi exploratori comparatiu del coneixement didàctic del contingut sobre piles galvàniques de professors de secundària en exercici i en formació
2021
En este estudio exploratorio se evalúa el conocimiento didáctico del contenido (CDC) sobre pilas galvánicas de profesores de secundaria en formación y en ejercicio. Además, este conocimiento se ha relacionado con los enfoques de enseñanza que prefieren. Para este propósito, se ha adaptado el instrumento CoRe de Loughran, Mulhall y Berry (2004) considerando dos situaciones: pila Daniell y pila voltaica simple. La muestra se compuso de 25 profesores en formación y de 15 profesores en ejercicio. El análisis de los resultados obtenidos hasta ahora sugiere que, en primer lugar, el CDC de los profesores de secundaria sobre pilas galvánicas no es el deseable; en segundo lugar, el CDC de los profes…
Foreword: Award Winning AESOP Teaching Prize 2009
2010
Influence of Content Knowledge on Pedagogical Content Knowledge: The case of teaching photosynthesis and plant growth
2009
International audience; Abstract The aim of the research was to investigate the effect of the amount and quality of content knowledge on pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The biological content photosynthesis and plant growth was used as an example. The research sample consisted of 10 primary and 10 secondary (biology) teacher students. Questionnaires, lesson preparation task and an interview were used to collect data. Primary student teachers' were not aware of students' conceptual difficulties and had problems in choosing the most important content. Neither of the groups had knowledge on suitable experiments and demonstrations, which indicates that PCK should be explicitly taught. The …
Embedded students? Can libraries benefit from students having work placements in the library in planning library instruction?
2019
This article discusses how students can be more integrated in developing library instruction and what advantages that can provide for librarians planning their teaching. The students seem to have a different starting point as to how important the librarians’ knowledge of the subject at hand is and whether or not library instruction should be an integrated part of the course.
Podejścia do nauki o języku w dydaktyce języka polskiego jako L1
2020
The article discusses didactic approaches to teaching grammar that have been developed in Polish language didactics since the end of the 18thcentury: grammatical-normative, system--grammatical and functional. Subsequent approaches are presented in the historical order, but the considerations focus on their main theoretical assumptions, areas of criticism of previous approaches and methodological solutions developed on these foundations. The approach adopted has been defined as the overriding principle of understanding the learning process.
Da Toniolo a Sturzo : scenario storico e progetto politico dei cattolici in Italia
2020
Le biografie intellettuali di Giuseppe Toniolo e Luigi Sturzo, arricchite dal loro considerevole patrimonio di opere d’ingegno e d’azione, raccontano in prima persona la storia del movimento cattolico italiano, descrivendone e preparandone dall’interno i cambiamenti che esso vive e attraversa durante alcuni decisivi passaggi intercorsi tra l’Ottocento e il Novecento. Di questo percorso storico, infatti, l’uno e l’altro sono a pieno titolo protagonisti e vi agiscono elaborando idee e visioni, i cui effetti si colgono distintamente nelle organizzazioni sociali e politiche da loro concepite e fondate. Le Settimane sociali e il Partito popolare italiano restano nel tempo come i punti cardinali …