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The app I need right now
So I and every other teacher right now are scrambling to get ready to teach school online. Here’s a problem I’m grappling with that I would welcome your advice. In my Geometry class, we do a lot of...
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Challenging Coronavirus with Connections and Puppets
My school, just like every other school in the world, has told students not to come back from break, and asked faculty to begin to make plans for virtual school. If you check twitter, you’ll see it’s...
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Pivot Interactives and Tychos—even better together
I’m a huge fan of physics teacher written software. At the moment, I think three of the most useful pieces of software for physics teaching are written by physics teachers: SBGbook: This is the best...
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Climate week warm up—let’s analyze some data
This week is climate week, and on Friday, I wanted to have a short assignment that would get my students thinking about climate change before we headed out for our observance of the worldwide climate...
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Teachers Coding: exploring CalDav files
It’s the start of the school year, and for me on of the big mundane tasks is getting my calendar set up for the school year. Our school’s home-brew SAS has this great feature that will generate .ics...
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Measuring the length of a pendulum with a microbit
Here’s a write up of another activity I’ve been working on as part of my sabbatical. In college, I remember a dean telling us the joke about the student who was challenged by their professor to measure...
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Some updates to Physics Coach, we’re ready for beta testers
Note 2 (May 28): I think I’ve fixed the bug, but if you encounter an error loading the site, I’d greatly appreciate you reaching out via twitter, this blog, or email. Note: it seems like the site has...
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Introducing Physics Coach—an app for tracking physics “workouts”
While on sabbatical, I’ve had much more time to devote to working out. Back in it was warmer, I developed a decent slow running habit which I tracked in Strava, and once it got colder, moved to gym...
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Computing in Mathematics: Build your Own Calculator
For the past few Fridays, I have been teaching my first ever lessonsto a class of Norwegian students, and I wanted to write about the experience here. This class was a class of 30 or so Norwegian...
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Coding as conversations: Pair programming
Recently, I saw Aatish Bhatia share this excellent TEDxCalgary talk from Marie-Claire Shananhan and Pratim Sengupta about coding in public spaces. My favorite quote from the video was, “Learning to...
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Coding in math class: comparing programming and problem solving
As I’ve mentioned previously, most of the focus of my sabbatical in Norway is working with faculty at the University of Oslo to help prepare middle and high school teachers for a National curriculum...
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An example of computational thinking as a sense making tool in the...
I need to write a much longer post detailing my work in Norway and all the things I’ve learned, but I first want to publish this very small example of some of of the things I’m working on. Here’s a...
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Exploring the Hydrogen Spectrum with Glowscript
As part of my sabbatical work at the Center for Computing in Science Education, I’ve learned a lot about the Norwegian Science and Math Curriculum, and gotten to meet some teachers who are doing very...
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Sabbatical goal—visiting 25 classrooms both real and virtually
I’m now mostly settled into life in Norway and despite a few challenges, really loving Scandinavian life (read all about it in our sabbatical blog, A Year in Norway). I’m going to starting work at the...
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A tale of two museums
(Note: I’m cross-posting this post from my sabbatical blog, A Year in Norway, since I think some of my regular physics teacher readers might find it of interest). During our week in Paris, we had the...
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Opening the school year with a letter to your physics teacher
Every year, I seem to go through some variant of an introduce yourself to your teacher activity, from asking students to fill out some sort of template I’ve created or to answer a Google survey. All of...
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I’m on sabbatical
For the 2018-19 school year, I’m going to be on sabbatical. I’ll be living in Oslo, Norway with my family, and working with some amazing researchers at the University of Oslo to add computational...
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Help me find a new home for a cache of old PASCO datalogging equipment
As part of the preparation for a renovation of our building, we are inventorying and packing all of the physics equipment at my school. One thing we are trying to also do is purge a bunch of the...
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Building a Dashboard in Google Sites
One of the the things I did at the beginning of this year that has saved me a ton of time is build a simple static webpage in Google Sites with links to all of the things I most frequently use—the...
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Bringing Computational Thinking into A Freshman History Class
I’ve long been interested in the notion of teaching computational thinking—helping students to recognize the power of computers to help them to understand data, gain insights and solve problems in...
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