Re: L5-To lecture or not to lecture?

["Daniel L. MacIsaac" <Dan.MacIsaac@NAU.EDU>]

> Even in a interactive presentation, one needs to do something different
> every seven minutes - like work a problem or do a demo.
>
> The PER people know more about this.  Dewey, comments???
>
> Jim Green
> mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
> http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen
I summarized a few resources on alternative activities to standard lectures
that could be carried out in regular lecture settings as part of a
presentation I made about a year ago.  The presentation advocates short
experiments accompanied by analytical discussions, which I call seat
experiments.  The presentation overheads are at:

http://purcell.phy.nau.edu/SeatExpts/Uhel/se1198.html

and some of the seat experiments themselves are at

http://purcell.phy.nau.edu/SeatExpts/

The bibliography at the end of the presentation describes some of the
literature.  A great place to start is with Hake's bibliography.

Dan M

Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ Univ
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