Carl Wieman: in his large-class physics experiment, random guessing scores about 3, lecture learning was very small, and the experimental class moved the entire distribution up — for every student.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpKrp87SHE

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Carl Wieman: the brain primarily learns the thinking that it practices, and not much else — so science and engineering students need to practice technical problem-solving.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpKrp87SHE

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Carl Wieman: learning complicated expertise works best by breaking it into pieces — the music teacher doesn't say "Go play a Haydn symphony," but "worry about how you hold your fingers on the violin."

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpKrp87SHE

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Carl Wieman: across science and engineering fields, experts solving problems make "the same 29 decisions used over and over."

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpKrp87SHE

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Carl Wieman: learning rewires the brain — MRI imaging shows a trained radiologist reading an X-ray activates the brain in a completely different way than a medical student just learning to.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpKrp87SHE

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Carl Wieman: same instructors, same intro CS course — switching from lectures to research-based teaching cut drop-and-failure rates to about a third of before.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpKrp87SHE

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Gutenberg Teaching Award 2016 für Nobelpreisträger #CarlWieman http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/75596.php

Nobel Prize winner #CarlWieman receives the 2016 Gutenberg Teaching Award http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/20309_ENG_HTML.php