high-tech experiments: these michigan students are using professional equipment to learn physics. - elmo visual presenter

Ramps, rolling tires, watches and lots of errors-
Easy-to-calculate used to be the backbone of Mich Armada Macomb College of Arts and Sciences teaching physics to students.
Now, if it weren't the age of the student, a visitor to the school might think she landed at a company specializing in ergonomics.
With funding from the fusion Education Foundation, Macomb purchased equipment that allowed students and teachers to video objects ---or people--in-
Motion and digital map motion to calculate angle and speed.
"Now, we can record people's rotation with video, using the mortes peak [software]
"We were able to prove many of the laws of conservation of energy and movement in rotating media, which could not be done without such a device," said Jeff Shure, a science teacher at macomb.
The Motus peak is an expensive one (nearly $20,000)
A set of software applications created by Peak Performance Technologies Inc.
It is commonly used by professional athletes and ergonomic experts to measure the movement of the bio-mechanics.
In fact, teacher Rob Blume was introduced to the technology for the first time more than ten years ago when he was a graduate student in physical therapy.
But when combined with digital cameras, desktop computers, movies,
Peak Motus software-making software and other demonstration devices have become a means for Macomb students to conduct advanced physics research projects and present research results to teachers and peers.
Over the past few months, Macomb's junior, Kristen Clark, and three teammates have analyzed the serve of college tennis players by video-recording athletes, digital video, and drawing points on the video, and use the peak Motus software to turn points into animated simple strokes.
In the end they decide how the speed of the racket affects the speed of the ball.
The experiment is part of the school's mandatory annual research requirements, requiring students to come up with a program that professionally presents the idea to teachers, searches for literature on relevant research, and collects data for 10 weeks, analyze the data and finally write a paper on the results of the report.
All of these tasks are closely related to the Michigan math and science benchmark and the college's goal of integrating the two disciplines.
However, Clark said it was "very interesting" for students to use the technology ".
It "reduces the amount of time we spend on research and will give us more accurate results.
"Hopefully they can show the tennis player how to make her serve more powerful.
Other students are working on research projects such as measuring how the weight of the backpack affects the curvature of the spine by putting luggage on the classmates and then recording it on the treadmill.
Another group is using video technology and the Peak Motus software to try to figure out if there is really a big difference between Sammy Sousa's corked bar.
"It helps us to do more advanced research, and we have to study [without it [projects]
It's much simpler than that, "said Kim Quandt, a veteran of the backpack experiment.
"It's definitely more interesting.
"This is the focus of engineering engineers.
$60,000, three.
Annual funding from fusion is rooted in brain theory
Based on learning, an understanding that students have a high level of energy and emotion when learning questions they are interested in, which is an opportunity to create long-term learning
Karl-Karl Klimek says there has been a sharp increase in term memory
Chairman of the Integrated Education Foundation and project development consultant.
Klimek, who is also in charge of the education consultancy 2 Perspectives, helped Shull of Macomb and others to come up with Grant ideas, and worked with Panasonic digital camera to write the application for peak devices Windows XP desktop computer with DVD read and write function and movie function-Make software.
Klimek, a course expert and former high school principal, is a supporter of the brain
Learning theory and encouragement courses based on adaptive decision-making rather than real decision-making.
"The idea behind this grant is if [the school]
"With this peak Motus device, they can let students use this technology for their own research," Klimek said . ".
"With this, teachers will not be recipients of information in linear courses, but will become facilitators of learning opportunities now.
They can then slide these benchmarks in at those learning peaks.
"Funding programs and programs that receive this form of learning is an indirect approach to the main mission of the Integrated Education Foundation: promoting science and engineering careers to students in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio
The foundation is funded by profit from a two-year Convergence conference that brings together leaders in the transportation electronics industry (
Think about the GPS, heating and sound systems in the car).
"The integration board is very concerned about the large amount of engineering work that continues to go abroad because it seems [the number of]
"In this country, there are fewer students working in this type of profession," Klimek said . ".
"We are trying to build a learning environment so that learners have the opportunity to apply or adopt adaptive decisions. . . .
The traditional teaching model in which teachers have full control over what is going on is that students receive inhibitors of science and engineering.
"The foundation is currently funding about 30 projects with grants of approximately $250,000 a year.
All the funding has been, A large number of fusion grants are only senior Work Science in applying and math for Macomb director Elsie rizenhaine and her teaching staff in seeking to create the best learning environment to "increase student opportunities" and engineering, for some, "art," said Ritzenhein.
"Basically, any software, computer, camera, tripod or other equipment other than the list of classrooms. . .
Purchases have been made through grants.
We don't have money-
Additional equipment is provided for the school. " The five-year-old, 200-
The student School of the rural invincible fleet is a magnet program that attracts students from six places every day for three hours of honors math, science and technology classes.
The initial budget of the school, as well as grants from the Armada Education Foundation, the electronic data system and other institutions, enables Ritzenhein and her employees to obtain ELMO visual presenters ($1,800 each)
, InFocus projector ($1,500 each)
, Wall screen and smart board ($1,300 each)
Students can learn these courses in science, computer science, calculus, and other courses.
"I teach calculus and computer science every day with all the knowledge above," says teacher Carlson . ".
"This type of dynamic tool allows students to project, analyze questions such as" What happens if so.
Models that can be built using technology as a tool do help facilitate problem solving. " The inquiry-
According to Macomb staff, teaching methods based on mathematics and science have achieved some measurable results in Macomb. Forty-
Shull said four students graduated from the college last year and that all 44 students are currently enrolled in the university.
"They haven't been there long enough and we can't track their degree, but we 've seen a huge shift in math and science in terms of the initial degree they want to study.
"Call it the brain.
Based on learning or inquirybased approach.
In any case, Klimek and Ritzenhein agree that for a teacher with a mindset and tools to adopt this approach, these types of results can happen anywhere.
We believe in [Macomb]
"This type of learning is at the center of how the brain works and learns better," says Carlson . ".
"We also believe that this is appropriate and necessary for all learners, not just learners in advanced courses.
This method can and should be promoted in other schools.
"Playing in parks that replicate this learning environment does not require a $60,000 investment like the Peak Motus grant at the Macomb Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In fact, Klimek and Convergence have funded projects using GPS devices or handheld personal digital assistants for less than $10,000.
"The question is, what technology can we use to trigger their pursuit of information and grease the burlesque? '" Klimek says.
In Flint, Mickey.
, Convergence funded a "school in the Park" project of Bunche Community School with a grant of $11,000.
Use devices such as digital camera, digital camera, multimedia projector, digital drawing board and wireless mini camera
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, students 400
The student primary school collected data, created field guides for parks near the school, and analyzed soil and water samples.
They have also developed a landscape plan and a park upgrade plan.
"When children are highly engaged in learning, they show up and they don't walk away," Klimek said . ".
"Many other questions end up being pieces of your fingers, and they disappear because the children are highly involved in learning.