Hasselblad Seminar 2-3 April 2009

Understanding the Roles of Molecules - From Physics To Life

Contributions

Thursday

13.30: Konrad Schönborn, Petter Bivall Persson, Gunnar Höst, Shaaron Ainsworth & Lena Tibell:
Do haptic representations help complex molecular learning? Learning gain, understanding and students' interaction with a haptic virtual model of protein-ligand docking model
14.30: "Relay race" of 90 sec presentations by PhD students
15.00 Coffee
15.30-17: Parallel groups of presentations
Room Röda sten:
  • Karin Thörne: Karlstad,
    Communication of genetics in secondary school
  • Gunnar E. Höst, Caroline A. Larsson, Arthur J. Olson, & Lena A.E. Tibell:
    Using a dynamic physical model to visualize the process of self-assembly
  • Maria Ferlin, CUL:
    "Snakes are predators without arms and legs" - on biodiversity in biology textbooks for grades 6/7-9.
Room Balder:
  • Ingela Bursjöö, CUL: From knowledge to action - how pupils and teacher students express the connection between lifestyle and sustainable development
  • Nina Christenson, KaU
    Upper Secondary Students' Argumentation on Socio-Scientific Issues
  • Fredrik Jeppsson, LiU
    The interpretation of temperature when solving a thermodynamic task - a semiotic/semantic approach

Friday

8.30-10: Parallel groups of presentations
Room Röda sten:
  • Anne Solli
    How students are introduced to the university discourse on the use of biotechnology. The argumentation on GMO involving both professor and students.
  • Anna-Lena Göranson, LiU
    Elucidating the Aggregation Process of the Alzheimer's Disease Associated Abeta peptides
  • Mari Stadig Degerman & Lena A.E. Tibell
    In Search for Critical Features in an ATPase animation:
  • Lars Björklund, LiU
    How is the dual system model changing our view of cognition and learning ?
Room Balder:
  • Birgitta Frändberg, IPD; GU:
    Students' (aged 10 and 14) levels of explanation and use of models and metaphores in TIMSS 2007
  • Roger Andersson, MdH
    Learning geometrical optics with computer assisted instruction
  • Jesper Haglund, LiU
    An Exploration of Students' and Teachers' Interpretation of Otto Engine Animations
10.30: Niklas Gericke, KaU
Science versus School-science; Multiple modes in genetics - The depiction of gene function in upper secondary textbooks and its influence on students' understanding
Pernilla Nilsson, HH
Learning to teach and teaching to learn