Pedagogical Discipline Representations that Facilitate the Learning of Complex Modern Astrophysics Topics
Abstract
Pedagogical discipline representations (PDRs) are representations that are especially useful for teaching and learning about a topic, even though these representations would not typically be found in a textbook or used by two experts in the discipline who are engaged in discourse with one another on the topic. In some cases PDRs are significantly simplified versions of representations experts might use in a colloquium talk when discussing a topic; in others they can be highly contextualized representations with unique features that purposefully engage novice learners' pre-existing mental models and promote critical discourse. This poster shows several of the novel PDRs we have created and used in order to help Astro 101 students reason about complex astrophysical topics, such as interferometry and gravitational microlensing.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #227
- Pub Date:
- January 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016AAS...22724503W