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Carl Wieman

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Physics and Astronomy welcomes recognized physicist and nobel laureate Carl Wieman for a talk on undergraduate science teaching on Thursday, February 4. The talk, titled “A Scientific Approach to Teaching Science and Engineering” will look into how science education is taught and how new approaches to teaching and learning can benefit students in the 21st century.

Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science and engineering have advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. Guided primarily by tradition and dogma, science education meanwhile has remained largely medieval. Research on how people learn is now revealing much more effective ways to teach, learn and evaluate learning than what is in use in the traditional science class. The combination of this research with information technology is setting the stage for a new approach to teaching and learning that can provide the relevant and effective science education for all students that is needed for the 21st century.

Although the focus of the talk is on undergraduate science teaching, where the data is the most compelling, the underlying principles come from studies of the general development of expertise and apply widely.

More on Carl Wieman

Wieman is an internationally recognized physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics. He is the former associate director of science for the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy and is currently with Stanford University’s Department of Physics and Graduate School Education.

Event details

“A Scientific Approach to Teaching Science and Engineering” with Carl Wieman will take place Thursday, February 4, 12–1 p.m. in Kuykendall 101. Doors will open at 11:30 a.m. Light refreshments will be served.

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