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Making Peer Instruction Work for You, at Humboldt State University (Arcata, CA), Tuesday, August 20, 2013:
talk_2124.pdf
The basic goals of Peer Instruction are to encourage and make use of student interaction during lectures, while focusing students' attention on underlying concepts and techniques. The method has been assessed in many studies using standardized, diagnostic tests and shown to be considerably more effective than the conventional lecture approach to teaching. Peer Instruction is now used in a wide range of science and math courses at the college and secondary level. In this 2-hour long workshop, participants will learn about Peer Instruction, serve as the "class" in which Peer Instruction is... Read more about Making Peer Instruction Work for You
Confessions of a converted lecturer, at Humboldt State University (Arcata, CA), Tuesday, August 20, 2013:
talk_2123.pdf
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students' performance significantly
Flipped Classrooms 101—An Introduction to Flipped Learning, at Digital Solutions Complimentary Webinar Series, Pearson Thought Leadership (New York, NY), Tuesday, August 20, 2013:
talk_2193.pdf
Instructors all over the globe are turning their students' worlds around by flipping classrooms. In a flipped class, teachers move information coverage out of the lecture hall so that they can better leverage in-class time to address students’ difficulties and misconceptions. In this interactive webinar, Dr. Julie Schell will flip the session by asking participants to complete brief pre-webinar activities. She will use responses from these activities during the session to explore the why, what, and how of flipped classrooms—why flipped learning increases student achievement and engagement... Read more about Flipped Classrooms 101—An Introduction to Flipped Learning
Confessions of a converted lecturer, at Lucia Mar Unified School District, Lucia Mar Unified School District (Arroyo Grande, CA), Monday, August 19, 2013:
talk_2122.pdf
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students' performance significantly
Educating the Innovators of the 21st Century, at Lucia Mar Unified School District, Lucia Mar Unified School District (Arroyo Grande, CA), Sunday, August 18, 2013:
talk_2185.pdf
Can we teach innovation? Innovation requires whole-brain thinking — left-brain thinking for creativity and imagination, and right-brain thinking for planning and execution. Our current approach to education in science and technology, focuses on the transfer of information, developing mostly right-brain thinking by stressing copying and reproducing existing ideas rather than generating new ones. I will show how shifting the focus in lectures from delivering information to team work and creative thinking greatly improves the learning that takes place in the classroom and promotes independent... Read more about Educating the Innovators of the 21st Century
Personalized learning, at Computer-Using Educators (Costa Mesa, CA), Thursday, August 15, 2013:
talk_2157.pdf
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students' performance significantly
Confessions of a converted lecturer, at Santa Clara County Office of Education (San Jose, CA), Tuesday, August 13, 2013:
talk_2184.pdf
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students' performance significantly
Confessions of a converted lecturer, at Franklin McKinley School District (San Jose, CA), Tuesday, August 13, 2013:
talk_2120.pdf
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students' performance significantly
Confessions of a converted lecturer, at 2013 Biannual Meeting of Norwegian Physical Society (Bergen, Norway), Saturday, August 10, 2013:
talk_2121.pdf
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students' performance significantly
Nonlinear optics at the nanoscale, at 2013 Biannual Meeting of Norwegian Physical Society (Bergen, Norway), Friday, August 9, 2013:
talk_2145.pdf
We explore nonlinear optical phenomena at the nanoscale by launching femtosecond laser pulses into long silica nanowires. Using evanescent coupling between wires we demonstrate a number of nanophotonic devices. At high intensity the nanowires produce a strong supercontinuum over short interaction lengths (less than 20 mm) and at a very low energy threshold (about 1 nJ), making them ideal sources of coherent white-light for nanophotonic applications. The spectral broadening reveals an optimal fiber diameter to enhance nonlinear effects with minimal dispersion. We also present a device that... Read more about Nonlinear optics at the nanoscale

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