IPERC Journal: REAL IPERC Journal: Research in Education, Assessment, and Learning. REAL is a free electronic journal. The first issue is scheduled to be published in August 2009. For more details, please look at the journal's main page. |
2012 Roller Coaster Competition
Date: February 1st. 2012
Location: COSI COLUMBUS, OH (333 West Broad Street)
Center of Science and Industry
http://www.icoaster.org/
 
Ten years of successful case studies gives PAST the unique ability to utilize deep experience to benefit our new clients. PAST has a suite of educational services and products that can transform any school, town, region, or state whether it’s a single interim program, or innovative project based programming for an entire school system. PAST will find the links within cultural, ethnographic, geographic, community, and economic systems to create unique learning environments specifically suited to place, culture, and time.
By partnering anthropology with science and technology, PAST invites the world to design, construct, and engage in experiences that link learning to life. By designing unique educational systems, students excel, communities thrive, and economies prosper.
Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is the leading provider of rigorous and innovative Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) education curricular programs used in middle and high schools across the U.S.
STEM education is at the heart of today’s high-tech, high-skill global economy. For America to remain economically competitive, our next generation of leaders — the students of today — must develop the critical-reasoning and problem-solving skills that will help make them the most productive in the world.
STEM education programs like the one offered by PLTW engage students in activities-, projects-, and problem-based (APPB) learning, which provides hands-on classroom experiences. Students create, design, build, discover, collaborate and solve problems while applying what they learn in math and science. They’re also exposed to STEM fields through professionals from local industries who supplement the real-world aspect of the curriculum through mentorships and workplace experiences.
PLTW’s comprehensive curriculum for engineering and biomedical sciences has been collaboratively designed by PLTW teachers, university educators, engineering and biomedical professionals and school administrators to promote critical thinking, creativity, innovation and real-world problem solving skills in students.
The hands-on, project-based engineering courses for high schools and middle schools and biomedical sciences courses for high schools engage students on multiple levels, expose them to areas of study that they typically do not pursue, and provide them with a foundation and proven path to college and career success. The curriculum, delivered through PLTW’s Virtual Academy, is provided free of charge to schools that register with PLTW. Classroom equipment — computer software and kits for hands-on activities — along with teacher training, which is required, are the main costs related to the program.
The PLTW curriculum is founded in the fundamental problem-solving and critical-thinking skills taught in traditional career and technical education (CTE), but at the same time integrates national academic and technical learning standards and STEM principles, creating what U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan calls one of the “great models of the new CTE succeeding all across the country.” PLTW was recently cited by the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a “model for 21st century career and technical education.
More than 4,200 schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia are offering PLTW courses to their students in the 2011-12 school year. In addition, PLTW has trained more than 10,500 teachers to instruct its engaging, rigorous STEM education curriculum.
The International Conference on Physics Education (ICPE) will be held at the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City from August 15 to 19, 2011. It is organized by the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), the Latin American Physics Education Network (LAPEN), the Mexican Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT-MX) and supported by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).
ICPE 2011 (MEXICO) will focus on Training Physics Teachers and Educational Networks, from the elementary school to the undergraduate university level. The following four subjects are discussed in ICPE 2011:
- Training Physics teachers and networks
- Curriculum innovation in Physics
- Information and Communication Technologies in teaching Physics
- Active learning of Physics
For more information, please visit: http://www.icpe2011.net/
The 7th joint meeting of Chinese physicists worldwide (OCPA7)-International Conference on Physics Education and Frontier Physics will be held at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on August 1-5, 2011.
The conference is being organized by the National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu), National Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung), and the Overseas Chinese Physics Association (OCPA). It continues a series of previous ones held in Shantou (1994), Taipei (1997), Hong Kong (2000), Shanghai (2004), Taipei (2006) and Lanzhou (2009).
The scientific program features plenary sessions, followed by invited and contributed talks in parallel sessions. Scientific topics cover the latest experimental and theoretical developments in all subareas of physics. The educational program covers new progress in physics education, public outreach, mentoring of undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Students are encouraged to enter their poster presentations for award competition. The official language of the conference is English.
The conference will be held at National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The oceanfront campus sits on the hillside of the scenic Hsitzuwan Bay, one of the most-visited vista areas in southern Taiwan.
For more information, please visit: http://ocpa7.phys.nsysu.edu.tw/cht/index.php
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