June 6-10

2nd Week

"Real and Virtual Worlds in Science and Science Education: Challenges and Myths" (6. - 10. 6. 2016)

Annotation

The ICT implementation to the natural sciences and to the process of natural sciences instruction does not mean eliminating real experiments from laboratory practice. The real living environment makes us face more and more items of virtual environments, worlds, mediated by infinite possibilities of computer networks. The mediated perception through virtual images has become an important cognitive channel for pupils. Real information from the existing reality is steadily replaced by virtual information. Is the remote (by computer network mediated) and virtual (by computer simulated) science experiment able to meet requirements of the best laboratory practice? How to blend an effective and meaningful application of real, indirect and simulative observation, measuring and experimenting? Researching these fields leads, or not, to proving intuitive estimations, which is important, as well as answering other questions resulting from this area of potential assets and threats. It is obvious that nowadays, in the period of creating and applying remote, especially virtual, laboratories and their accessibility also via Web, there is an increasing number of different applications. The module bring a number of explanation and examples of different combination of real lab activities and their computer simulations from the field of physics, chemistry and astronomy.

Program

Mon 6. 6. 2016

9.00 - 9.45 Real and Virtual Worlds in Science and Science Education: Challenges and Myths (lecture, Prof. PhDr. Martin Bílek, Ph.D.)

9.45 - 10.00 Break

10.00 - 11.30 Real and Virtual Worlds in Science and Science Education - workshop (workshop, Prof. PhDr. Martin Bílek, Ph.D. and Ph.D. students)

11.30 - 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 - 14.15 Simulators of Lab Experimental Activities (lecture, Mgr. Veronika Machková, Ph.D.)

14.15 - 14.30 Break

14.30 - 16.00 Simulators of Lab Experimental Activities - workshop (workshop, Mgr. Veronika Machková, Ph.D. and Ph.D. students)

Tue 7. 6. 2016

9.00 - 9.45 Mathematics as Part of Culture (lecture, Prof. RNDr. František Kuřina, CSc.)

9.45 - 10.00 Break

10.00 - 11.30 Geometry as a Game - workshop (workshop, Mgr. Lukáš Vízek)

11.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 14.15 Modelling of the Environmental Phenomena (lecture, PhDr. Michal Musílek, Ph.D.)

14.15 - 14.30 Break

14.30 - 16.00 Modelling of the Environmental Phenomena; Excursion in World of Renewable Energy Sources (workshop, PhDr. Michal Musílek, Ph.D.)

Wed 8. 6. 2016

9.00 - 9.45 Real and Virtual World in Physics and Physics Education (lecture, Assoc. Prof. RNDr. Jan Kříž, Ph.D.)

9.45 - 10.00 Break

10.00 - 11.30 Real and Virtual World in Physics and Physics Education - workshop (workshop, Assoc. Prof. RNDr. Jan Kříž, Ph.D., Ing. Karol Radocha, Ph.D., RNDr. Daniel Jezbera)

11.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 14.15 Real and Virtual World in Astronomy (lecture, Mgr. Jan Veselý)

14.15 - 14.30 Break

14.30 - 16.00 Excursion in Astronomy Lab (workshop, Mgr. Jan Veselý)

Thu 9. 6. 2016

Free day with Buddy

Fri 10. 6. 2016

All-day excursion: Pilsen - Techmania Centre (Interactive Science Experiments for all society, Pilsen Urquel Browary - museum and factory excursion, Traditional Czech Beer Degustation (guides from Faculty of Science)