Enhancing Metacognition with Technology
Enhancing Metacognition with Technology
Building an AR Magnetic Field Visualizer—Rationale
The computational perception of sensory data has been recognized as a future technology trend that is likely to have a significant impact on the U.S. workforce. Augmented reality (AR) technology on personal mobile devices (PMDs) is one possible solution to addressing the need to support education in preparing a future workforce to work with technology and complex data about fields.
Technology with a Purpose: Enhancing Metacognition
Physics Toolbox is featured in a chapter that is now part of the 2nd edition of Best Practices in STEM Education, a book that showcases pedagogical strategies from some of the U.S.'s most distinguished K-12 teachers.
The Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship is a federally-mandated program that places exemplary STEM teachers at NASA, NOAA, the Department of Energy, the Library of Congress, and in the offices of U.S. congressional members.
It was during Rebecca Vieyra's fellowship year (2014-2015) that she co-founded Vieyra Software with her husband. In her chapter, "Teaching Students Metacognition through Discipline-Based Research and Technology," she describes how using technology helped her to think critically about how to help students think about their own thinking, an important aspect of critical thinking that is especially helpful in dealing with common physics misconceptions.
Clever Lab Ideas
We've seen a lot of ideas for using smartphones in introductory physics labs. See our Lessons Page for nearly 50 ideas. It's a rare find to get an idea we haven't seen before! The following are a few new ideas (or significantly modified ones) that we hope will be helpful if you are a teacher.
A team from Cuba describes optics undergraduate experiences with mobile devices, including the clever use of the light meter to measure intensity in interference patterns.
This Spanish thesis describes the use of Physics Toolbox Accelerometer to study a "double Atwood machine" with a variable mass composed of sand in a funnel.
Physics Toolbox Around the Web
This Spanish resource from the European Space Agency provides detailed guidelines for integrating exoplanet detection into your STEM teaching. Physics Toolbox Sensor Suite is used to collect model data, and visual instructions provide guidance on how to create a black box for making your own exoplanet eclipse.
An Indonesian team describes how to measure accelerations with a smartphone during interactions to estimate impulse.
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