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PV: Plenarvorträge

PV IV

PV IV: Plenarvortrag

Mittwoch, 23. März 2022, 09:00–09:45, Audimax

Teaching with Objects and Teaching with Video: The Challenges of Informal Education in Physics — •Allison Marsh — University of South Carolina

Books and lectures are popular ways to impart information, but what about objects and videos? In this talk I will focus on these two approaches to teaching.

The first will focus on material culture -- the objects and artifacts that reflect human progress. I will draw on my experience over the last four years writing a monthly column for the magazine Spectrum, the flagship publication of the IEEE. Each article focus on a museum object from the history of computer science or electrical engineering, broadly defined.

The second part of the talk will draw from my experience as the consultant for Crash Course History of Science, an extremely popular series of 46 short (10-12 minute), fast paced videos with goofy animation. I will talk about the collaborative process of deciding what information makes the cut and how that affects the overall content.

I will end with a reflection on audience and how these formats can draw in new people to the subjects, but also the drawbacks of the formats.