AVC STUDENTS WILL GET TECH BOOST FROM HP GRANT.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Physics, chemistry and engineering students at Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. will be getting some added technological help in the classroom thanks to a $60,000 Hewlett Packard Technology for Teaching grant. Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley College's plan is to incorporate HP wireless technology in the teaching of physics, chemistry and engineering courses, in which students will have the ability to learn by doing rather than by listening, a method called inquiry-based learning Inquiry based learning describes a range of philosophical, curricular and pedagogical approaches to teaching. Its core premises include the requirement that learning should be based around student questions. . ``The instructor acts as a facilitator in the students' efforts to discover knowledge rather than a conduit for the transfer of facts, skills and information that is usually forgotten shortly after the end of the course,'' said Christos Valiotis, the grant's principal investigator Noun 1. principal investigator - the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project PI scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences and a physics instructor. ``Students will work on scientific and engineering problems in a collaborative setting that closely relates to real-world working conditions,'' said Valiotis. ``In addition, the HP wireless laptop lab will be used for a summer workshop in-service training series geared toward middle school teachers of mathematics and science. The project is a collaboration of AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C , CSUB CSUB California State University, Bakersfield CSUB WESTPAC Fleet Submarine Broadcast CSUB California State University Band and the National Science Foundation and it will start in the summer of 2005.'' Antelope Valley College was selected as one of 42 college and university recipients to receive the HP Technology for Teaching grant, which is designed to transform and improve learning through the innovative use of technology. Antelope Valley College will receive an HP cash and product package valued at up to $60,000, which will include one year of access to HP's higher education help desk support. Each college or university receiving an HP Technology for Teaching grant will use the HP wireless technology to enhance learning in computer science, engineering, math or science courses. |
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