物理教育如何满足培养21世纪人才的需要——一个帮助学生提高概念理解和问题解决能力的物理学习系统

近十几年的物理教育研究表明传统的教学方式不能够满足21世纪的人才培养的需要．新的教学方法和课程设置可以帮助学生开发多种量化表示法以使得学生不使用数学可以有效的推理物理过程；可以让学生学习使用象叙述、图解等表示法相关联的符号语言，由此培养学生解决复杂问题的能力，学习怎样学习，有效的以小组方式工作．本文将介绍这样一个学习系统的建立和基本特征．

How Can Physics Education Meet the Need of 21 Century

Recent decades researches indicate that traditional didactic instruction is not producing the student learning that we desire. More importantly, the research is helping in the development of new pedagogical strategies and curriculum that are improving student achievement. We describe one effort based on this research. The aims are to help students: develop qualitative representations and imagery so that they can reason effectively about physical processes without using the knowledge of maths; learn to use the symbolic language of physics by linking it to other representations such as words, sketches, diagrams, and graphs; develop the skills needed to solve complex multipart problems; learn to learn; and develop the skills needed to work effectively in groups.