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Developing and Researching PhET simulations for Teaching Quantum Mechanics
Quantum mechanics is difficult to learn because it is counterintuitive, hard
to visualize, mathematically challenging, and abstract. The Physics Education
Technology (PhET) Project, known for its interactive computer simulations for
teaching and learning physics, now includes 18 simulations on quantum mechanics
designed to improve learning of this difficult subject. Our simulations include
several key features to help students build mental models and intuitions about
quantum mechanics: visual representations of abstract concepts and microscopic
processes that cannot be directly observed, interactive environments that
directly couple students' actions to animations, connections to everyday life,
and efficient calculations so students can focus on the concepts rather than
the math. Like all PhET simulations, these are developed using the results of
education research and feedback from educators, and are tested in student
interviews and classroom studies. This article provides an overview of the PhET
quantum simulations and their development. We also describe research
demonstrating their effectiveness and share some insights about student
thinking that we have gained from our research on quantum simulations.Comment: accepted by American Journal of Physics; v2 includes an additional
study, more explanation of research behind claims, clearer wording, and more
reference
TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL USING CONSTRUCTIVISM APPROACH
Constructivism approach is the newest way to teach Language as foreign language. Mostly,
many Vocational high schools in Indonesia use behaviorist approach which the students have
to say what the teacher says and what the book says. The problems are; is the method
appropriate? Is it works effectively or not? Does it give some benefits for the students or will
become the parts of his life? These questions must be considered to achieve success in
language acquisition not only as something that is accomplished in the classroom during the
particular course, but also as a life-long activity, considering the graduates of Vocational
high school students are prepared for the business world . This paper attempts to give a
scratch of constructivism approach in teaching English as foreign language which might be a
great necessity for the teacher of vocational high school. The content also involves
Curriculum in order to be accuracy with the materials. Several points should be taken into
consideration to apply the best method in classroom teaching
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Impacts of directed tutorial activities in computer conferencing: a case study
This paper describes a qualitative study of asynchronous electronic conferencing by three tutorial groups on the same postgraduate course (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Worldwide), forming part of an MA in Applied Linguistics (via Distance Education) at the Open University, UK. The groups varied in the degree to which the tutor participated in the discussion and in whether the tutor's input took the form of responding to student posts or the setting of tasks to scaffold the learners' development of academic skills. It is argued that the least interventionist strategy in terms of tutor response and task-setting resulted in the least productive conference discussion in terms of both communicative interaction and academic development, while a more interventionist role by the tutor depended for its success on characteristics of the tutor input and the task set
A Deeper Look at Student Learning of Quantum Mechanics: the Case of Tunneling
We report on a large-scale study of student learning of quantum tunneling in
4 traditional and 4 transformed modern physics courses. In the transformed
courses, which were designed to address student difficulties found in previous
research, students still struggle with many of the same issues found in other
courses. However, the reasons for these difficulties are more subtle, and many
new issues are brought to the surface. By explicitly addressing how to build
models of wave functions and energy and how to relate these models to real
physical systems, we have opened up a floodgate of deep and difficult questions
as students struggle to make sense of these models. We conclude that the
difficulties found in previous research are the tip of the iceberg, and the
real issue at the heart of student difficulties in learning quantum tunneling
is the struggle to build the complex models that are implicit in experts'
understanding but often not explicitly addressed in instruction.Comment: v2, v3 updated with more detailed analysis of data and discussion;
submitted to Phys. Rev. ST: PE
The Mechanics of Embodiment: A Dialogue on Embodiment and Computational Modeling
Embodied theories are increasingly challenging traditional views of cognition by arguing that conceptual representations that constitute our knowledge are grounded in sensory and motor experiences, and processed at this sensorimotor level, rather than being represented and processed abstractly in an amodal conceptual system. Given the established empirical foundation, and the relatively underspecified theories to date, many researchers are extremely interested in embodied cognition but are clamouring for more mechanistic implementations. What is needed at this stage is a push toward explicit computational models that implement sensory-motor grounding as intrinsic to cognitive processes. In this article, six authors from varying backgrounds and approaches address issues concerning the construction of embodied computational models, and illustrate what they view as the critical current and next steps toward mechanistic theories of embodiment. The first part has the form of a dialogue between two fictional characters: Ernest, the �experimenter�, and Mary, the �computational modeller�. The dialogue consists of an interactive sequence of questions, requests for clarification, challenges, and (tentative) answers, and touches the most important aspects of grounded theories that should inform computational modeling and, conversely, the impact that computational modeling could have on embodied theories. The second part of the article discusses the most important open challenges for embodied computational modelling
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF BANYUMASAN CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES
To mean what you say is sometimes problematic in daily conversation, moreover in some
indigenous dialects. It requires comprehensive context to achieve the core of communication.
So does in Banyumasan. Banyumasan or Banyumas dialect is a variant which is found along
the flow of Serayu river. The river flows from Sindoro-Sumbing Mountains
(Koentjaraningrat, 1984:23). Banyumas dialect is one of some variants of Javanese
language. Banyumasan has some differences compared to standard Javanese spoken in
Jogjakarta, Surakarta and Semarang. Those differences are also reflected in the
characteristics of conversational implicatures found in this dialect. Conversational
implicaure is a proposition that is implied by the utterance of sentence in a context even
though that proposition is not a part of nor an entailment of what was actually said (Grice,
1975; Gazdar, 1979). The characteristics of conversational implicatures are calculability,
cancellability, non-detachability, non-conventionality, and indeterminacy. (Grice, 1975;
Levinson, 1983; Thomas, 1996; dan Cruse, 2004). A dialect has different characteristics
compared to other dialects of the same language and so does the characteristic o
Deep Clustering and Conventional Networks for Music Separation: Stronger Together
Deep clustering is the first method to handle general audio separation
scenarios with multiple sources of the same type and an arbitrary number of
sources, performing impressively in speaker-independent speech separation
tasks. However, little is known about its effectiveness in other challenging
situations such as music source separation. Contrary to conventional networks
that directly estimate the source signals, deep clustering generates an
embedding for each time-frequency bin, and separates sources by clustering the
bins in the embedding space. We show that deep clustering outperforms
conventional networks on a singing voice separation task, in both matched and
mismatched conditions, even though conventional networks have the advantage of
end-to-end training for best signal approximation, presumably because its more
flexible objective engenders better regularization. Since the strengths of deep
clustering and conventional network architectures appear complementary, we
explore combining them in a single hybrid network trained via an approach akin
to multi-task learning. Remarkably, the combination significantly outperforms
either of its components.Comment: Published in ICASSP 201
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