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SmallTalk is a podcast series where we chat about nanotechnology with leading scientists, thinkers, artists, writers, and visionaries, and look at quirky nanoscience stories in the news. Dr. Stephanie Chasteen, of the Exploratorium�??s Teacher Institute, hosts this monthly series.
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We're getting the physics education research out of those stuffy journals and into your hands (or, rather, ears) with this little audio podcast. Co-hosted by veteran high school physics teacher Michael Fuchs and physicist and education researcher Stephanie Chasteen, each episode investigates a piece of the research literature and how it can relate to your classroom. Main website on PER User's Guide On iTunes On Compadre
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Preparing Students to Learn from Lecture: Creating a "Time for Telling"
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If interactive classrooms are the best way for students to learn, then is it bad to tell things to students? Not necessarily. In this podcast, we hear from researchers and instructors how we might prepare students to learn effectively from lecture. Thanks to Daniel Schwartz of Stanford University, Doug Bonn and Jessica Lamb of the University of Bri…
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Visual, verbal, or auditory? The truth behind the myth behind the truth of learning styles.
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Are you a visual learner or an auditory learner? I bet you can tell me which you think you are. But does it matter? In this podcast, we discuss the research on individual learning styles, and how science learning requires us to blend the visual and the verbal. Thanks to Hal Pashler of UC San Diego and Richard Mayer of UC Santa Barbara for their par…
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The Art (and Science) of In-Class Questioning via Clickers
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Are "clickers" or "personal response systems" just the latest fad in education? Or is there solid research behind their use? In this episode we share some recent studies that really highlight how clickers can be used most effectively, and how they can save the world! Show notes: Guests on today's podcast were Eric Mazur of Harvard University, Jenny…
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Seeing isn't believing: Do classroom demonstrations help students learn?
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Physics is the study of nature. So, physics classes typically include demonstrations of how those laws of nature play out, often in surprising ways. But do students see what we intend them to see? In this episode, we find out what the research says about classroom demos, and how to help students get the most out of them. Show notes: Thanks to Eric …
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Nature�??s Playing Field: Nanotechnology and Medicine
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It???s hard to imagine building things as small as a cell, but now we can make things even smaller than that ??? as small as viruses or even DNA. This month, hear about nanotechnology???s fortuitous interface with the tiny stuff of biology. Research in this area has dramatic implications for the future of medicine. It could lead to artificially eng…
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A Little Ray of Sunshine: Nanotechnology�??s Role in Making Cheap Solar Power
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A lot of us would like to get off the grid, and get our power from the sun. But for most of us, it???s just too expensive. In this edition of SmallTalk, we???ll hear from Dr. Jeff Grossman at the University of California at Berkeley, who explains how nanotechnology may be used to make solar panels cheaper. And what could be wrong with that? Some et…
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Nano on the Market: Consumer products using nanotechnology
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We often think of nanotechnology as something that???s not going to happen until some far-off science future. But this month we???ll be talking about the science present ??? nanotechnology products that you could go out and buy, right now! Julia Moore and Evan Michelson from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will tell us about wh…
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In this edition of SmallTalk, we hear from the man who builds the world???s smallest vehicles. He calls them ???nanocars.??? Dr. Jim Tour, a chemist at Rice University, tells us about his nanocars and how he thinks they might lead to nano-sized factories. We???ll also hear from University of Florida graduate student Diane Hickey, who will tell us s…
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Listen as we chat with Dr. Don Eigler, IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center, who says that playing with atoms changed his views of the world. Dr. Eigler is a physicist who specializes in studying the physics of surfaces and nanometer-scale structures. In late 1989, using the liquid-helium-temperature scanning tunneling microscope he built,…
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