Commentary on each lesson is available from its classroom teacher as well as from experts in three related fields. Fixing Physics Educators are not the only ones involved in such programs. Researchers, administrators, and corporations are all working in partnership. For example, ASU physics Professor David Hestenes is dedicated to reforming high school physics. National statistics show that fewer than 5 percent of this nation's high school physics teachers have been retrained to meet the National Science Education Standards.
Teachers learn how to use technology to help students transition effectively.
In science, we build imaginary worlds that help us understand the real world. Technology helps us represent those patterns concretely and to analyze them fully. Without the ability to use such patterns to make sense of real-life experience, science becomes little more than rote memorization of science fragments, Hestenes maintains. Interactive Classrooms Technology also lets ASU engineering professors teach Mexican engineering students directly from Tempe, Don Evans says. Those teachers can also bring some of the world's best engineers directly to their students via videoconferencing.