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Powerful
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The Powerful Pictures Project will create, design, test, publish and evaluate a series of 15 modules that form the basis for a supplemental text for the first year chemistry curriculum. Each of these modules will be based on a concept identified to be crucial to the fundamental understanding of chemistry. Content will be translated into conceptually organized molecular pictures. Students will be asked to look at, interpret, analyze and apply graphical information to first develop a qualitative, then a quantitative, and finally a mathematical understanding of chemical concepts. In this way students will construct laws, formulas, and algorithms for themselves and will truly understand how they represent natural phenomena and central chemical principles. Molecular representations (pictures) will be used as the major instrument for the presentation of all aspects of the content. Using these modules, students will develop their conceptual understanding in the same way that chemists, biologists, and other scientists, use molecular representation to interpret experimental data and phenomena. This approach is very different from the traditional instructional use of molecular representations in which illustrations become a form of content voyeurism, meaning the illustrations are merely illustrative and not interactive. In modern chemistry and biology, pictures are the principles and should be the pedagogy. The 15 modules of Powerful Pictures will be a practical pedagogical tool to achieve this paradigm shift. The contents of this program are being developed under a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of FIPSE and the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal government. |
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