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Roberta Tevlin Chris Meyer |
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| Date: | Wednesday May 22, 2013 |
| Time: | 4:00 pizza. 4:30 - 6:00 physics, 6:00 - ? informal socializing at Sarah's Bistro - two blocks away. Everyone is invited for all or part. |
| Place: | Toronto, Danforth CTI, 800 Greenwood Ave., Rm A76 |
| Topic: | Roberta Tevlin and Chris Meyer present Demonstrations: Entertainment or Education? |
Demonstrations: Entertainment or Education? by Roberta Tevlin and Chris Meyer
How do we best use demos in the physics classroom? Do we want the whiz-bang or the hmmm....? Roberta and Chris lead the demo show with a few of their favourites and provide some background on effective demonstrations. Please bring your own demos along to share with everyone and we will have some great discussions. Let us know in advance what you will be bringing. Register in advance with Roberta so that there will be enough pizza!
Roberta has been teaching physics in Toronto for 25 years. She is rather fanatical about modern physics and Physics Education Research and spends her spare time looking for ways to combine them to make high school physics more exciting and inviting. She has given workshops to this end around special relativity, general relativity, particle physics quantum uncertainty and entanglement. She is a consultant for the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical and the coordinator of PI’s Teacher Network. In her spare spare time she plays New Orleans jazz at Grossman’s Tavern in Toronto.
Chris Meyer completed a Specialist Degree in Physics at the University of Toronto, but didn’t really get this physics stuff until he began teaching. From his experiences “teaching” physics at A. Y. Jackson (North York), the Ontario Science Centre, Rosedale Heights (Toronto) and now York Mills C. I. (North York) he came to realize that the teaching techniques he was raised with were not adequate. After attending a lecture by Edward Redish at the University of Toronto, and becoming acquainted for the first time with Physics Education Research, things began to change. Now Chris gives presentations across southern Ontario encouraging teachers to stop teaching.
If you are coming please email Roberta Tevlin so we have enough pizza and pop at 4:00.
Afterwards: Please join us for informal socializing at Sarah's Bistro - two blocks away.