Video Analysis of Physics Teachers' Explanatory Frameworks

David Geelan

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2096–2099

The ways teachers explain ideas to their students are an important part of teaching and learning physics. They are also related to the context of the physics course, and to the personal style of the teacher. This study used qualitative analysis of...

Topics: Teachers, Classrooms, Students

Teacher Explanation of Physics Concepts: A Video Study

David Geelan

Research in Science Education Vol. 43, No. 5 (October 2013) pp. 1751–1762

Video recordings of Year 11 physics lessons were analyzed to identify key features of teacher explanations. Important features of the explanations used included teachers' ability to move between qualitative and quantitative modes of discussion, ...

Canadian Stories of Distant Cases: Audiographics Teaching and Learning of High School Physics in the RACOL Project

David Geelan

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2924–2925

The Rural Advanced Community of Learners (RACOL) project is intended to provide learning opportunities to high school students in remote communities in northern Alberta. This paper uses a narrative case study research methodology, and reports the...

Topics: Schools, Community, Teachers, Students

Explaining Topics in Physics: an International Video Study

David Geelan

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 2541–2546

Explanation is an under-researched area in science education. The ways in which successful physics teachers explain physics concepts to their students were studied in Australia and Canada using video analysis of classroom teaching. This paper...

Measuring the effectiveness of computer-based scientific visualisations for conceptual development in Australian chemistry classrooms

David Geelan; Michelle Mukherjee

Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 3536–3545

Visual modes of representation have always been very important in science and science education. Interactive computer-based animations and simulations offer new visual resources for chemistry education. Many studies have shown that students enjoy...

Topics: computer animations

But does it work? Effectiveness of scientific visualisations in high school chemistry and physics instruction

David Geelan; Michelle Mukherjee

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 2706–2715

Scientific visualisations such as computer-based animations and simulations are increasingly a feature of high school science instruction. Visualisations are adopted enthusiastically by teachers and embraced by students, and there is good evidence...

Multiple Teaching Approaches, Teaching Sequence And Concept Retention In High School Physics Education

Ian Fogarty; David Geelan

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 32, No. 3 (July 2013) pp. 285–301

Students in 4 Canadian high school physics classes completed instructional sequences in two key physics topics related to motion – Straight Line Motion and Newton’s First Law. Different sequences of laboratory investigation, teacher explanation ...

Enhancing Students’ Scientific Literacy In Science Education Using Interactive Simulations: A Critical Literature Review

Xinxin Fan; David Geelan

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 32, No. 2 (April 2013) pp. 125–171

Secondary school science teachers have a wide variety of teaching approaches available to them as they support the development of their students’ scientific literacy and knowledge of, and about, science. Information technologies, on computers and...

Embodying Our Values in Our Teaching Practices: Building Open and Critical Discourse through Computer Mediated Communication

David R. Geelan

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 12, No. 4 (October 2001) pp. 375–401

Computer mediated communication—including web pages, email and web-based bulletin boards—was used to support the development of a cooperative learning community among students in a web-based distance education unit for practicing science and...

Topics: Distance Education, Social Sciences

One Approach to Finding Evidence for the Effectiveness of Scientific Visualisations in High School Physics and Chemistry Education

David Geelan; Michelle Mukherjee

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 3258–3263

Enormous amounts of money and energy are being devoted to the development, use and organisation of computer-based scientific visualisations (e.g. animations and simulations) in science education. It seems plausible that visualisations that enable...

Order of instruction effects – do they make a difference when teaching senior chemistry with computer based visualizations?

Michelle Mukherjee; Ian Fogarty; David Geelan

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 3123–3129

This study investigated whether conceptual development is greater if students learning senior chemistry hear teacher explanations and other traditional teaching approaches first then see computer based visualizations or vice versa. Five Canadian...

Learning Together, Virtually Present: Teacher Professional Development in the RACOL Project

David Geelan; Karen Fiege; Kim Peacock

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3316–3320

Teachers in the Rural Advanced Community of Learners (RACOL) project in northern Alberta, Canada, are teaching geographically separate classes in up to 5 schools, some over 100 km apart, using Virtual Presence Learning Environments (VPLEs). These...

Topics: Community, Distance Education, Professional Development, Learning Outcomes, Virtual Environments

Scientific Visualisations for Developing Students' Understanding of Concepts in Chemistry: Some Findings and Some Lessons Learned

David Geelan; Peter Mahaffy; Michelle Mukherjee

Teaching Science Vol. 60, No. 1 (March 2014) pp. 30–38

Scientific visualisations such as computer-based animations and simulations are increasingly a feature of high school Science instruction. Visualisations are adopted enthusiastically by teachers and embraced by students, and there is good evidence...

Beginning Teachers’ Reflections on Pre-service Technology Training and Sense of Preparedness

Emmanuel Abedi; Sarah Prestridge; David Geelan

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2022 (Apr 11, 2022) pp. 367–376

Several studies investigate effective strategies for preparing teachers for educational technology use, but primarily from the perspectives of pre-service teachers in training. This study addresses a different pathway that has received minimal...

Topics: faculty development, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Embodying Our Values in Our Teaching Practices: Building Open and Critical Discourse through Computer Mediated Communication

David R. Geelan; Peter C. Taylor

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 15, No. 4 (October 2004) pp. 375–401

Computer mediated communication—including web pages, email and web-based bulletin boards—was used to support the development of a cooperative learning community among students in a web-based distance education unit for practicing science and...

Topics: Distance Education, Social Sciences

Professional Development: A Rural School District's Experience with Videoconferencing

Karen Fiege; Kim Peacock; David Geelan

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 2150–2157

Abstract: The Rural Advanced Community of Learners (RACOL) project undertook an initiative to develop broadband synchronous and asynchronous technologies to a rural school district in northern Alberta, Canada. Relying on the recently installed...

Topics: Networking Technologies, Virtual Environments, Professional Development, Educational Technology, Community