Stepping Outside My Technology Classroom Box

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Stepping Outside My Technology Classroom Box

• How one Teacher Spent His Summer Vacation

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What is an RET Program?

• Research Experience for Teachers
• Funded by NSF (National Science Foundation)
• Is hosted by a local university and professor
  (i.e. Dr Stacy Klein at Vanderbilt University)
• Is usually comprised of Research and Lesson
  Development Components

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The RESEARCH

• Work in Bioengineering Optics Lab with graduate
  student
• Research a specific question
• What is the effect of laser treatment on wound
  healing

Dr. Jerry Wilmink
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The Equipment
Diode Laser ?
? Transgenic Mice
IVIS Imaging System ?
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The Process
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Peripheral Research

• Design, development, and implementation of a beam
  delivery system in order to facilitate human
  clinical care with the Vanderbilt Free Electron
  Laser, including spectroscopic feedback
  controlled automated beam targeting systems
• Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization (TMR).
• Development of optical tools for use in cellular
  and molecular biology, including Optical
  Coherence Tomography (OCT) and bioluminescence
  imaging

Dr. Duco Jansen
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The Module Creation
Challenge
Generate Ideas
Go Public
Legacy Cycle
Multiple Perspectives
Test Your Mettle
Research and Revise
Based on How People Learn, (Bransford, Brown
Cocking, National Academy Press, 2000)
Full text click here
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The Grand Challenge

• A mummified troll was discovered this past summer
  at our school and it has generated lots of
  interest worldwide. The principal asked us, the
  technology classes, to design a security system
  that will alert the police if someone tries to
  pilfer our prized possession. How can we
  construct a system that will allow visitors to
  view our artifact during the day, but would
  invisibly protect it at night in a cost-effective
  way?

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The Cycle

• Generate Ideas
• Brainstorming (Individually then Class)
• Multiple Perspectives
• Use Experts (We used Mythbusters)
• Research and Revise
• Light Properties (We used Rainbow Symphonys
  Light and Color Tutorial)
• Laser Research (Students Prepared a PowerPoint
  from Research)

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Test Your Mettle

• Create a Model of Security System Using
• 12 pcs PVC pipe (8-18, 4-24)
• 8 tri-joints
• 8 snap-Ts
• 8 street elbows
• 8 compact mirrors
• Tacking
• Laser w/ light sensor alarm
• 1 mini-troll

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Go Public

• Used 3 times during Module
• 1st
• Presented research findings from light tutorial
• 2nd
• Presented Powerpoints from laser research
• 3rd
• Demonstrated working laser system

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Web Places of Interest

• www.teachengineering.org (where this module is
  located)
• www.iteaconnect.org (you should already be
  familiar with this one!)
• www.tennessee-teea.org (our state organization
  with resources)

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Thank You for Coming!

• Enjoy the rest of YOUR Conference!!

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Dr. Stacy Klein