Action-Reaction

A Mistake Made in Haste

2011-12-09T01:07:17Z

In my previous post , I was so enamored with a group’s creation of the average velocity step graph that I neglected to check that group’s math. Turns out they calculated the average velocity using the total distance rather than the interval distance....(read more)

A Graph to Visualize Average Velocity

2011-12-06T21:20:04Z

Note: This is an expansion of the today’s Noschese 180 post. I thought it was too good not to share here. We started Constant Acceleration in college-prep today. Rather than dive right in with carts and motion detectors, I propped up one end of a lab...(read more)

You Khan’t Ignore How Students Learn

2011-12-02T20:41:07Z

From Harvard EdCast ‘s “The Celebrity Math Tutor” (transcript below) Buffy Cushman-Patz: What efforts do you take to ensure that your pedagogy is consistent with what education research shows about how people learn, especially how people learn math and...(read more)

Meet a Modeler: Fran Poodry

2011-11-26T21:40:21Z

Today’s guest post is from Fran Poodry, the president-elect of the American Modeling Teachers’ Association . Fran teaches high school physics in Pennsylvania. It is the fourth post in a series which shares the stories of teachers using Modeling Instruction....(read more)

A Demonstration of the Ineffectiveness of Traditional Instruction

2011-11-13T21:08:00Z

First, answer this question: A student in a lab holds a brick of weight W in her outstretched horizontal palm and lifts the brick vertically upward at a constant speed. The force of the student’s hand on the brick is: A. constant in time and zero. B....(read more)

Physics Teaching 2.Uh-Oh

2011-11-11T19:11:51Z

My first talk! Given at the STANYS 2011 Physics Breakfast on November 8th, 2011 in Rochester, New York Links to resources mentioned in the talk: Feynman’s blackboard at his death Hake’s “Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six-thousand-student...(read more)

Khan’s School of the Future

2011-11-11T01:05:00Z

From Hacked Education : Khan Academy announced this morning that it has raised $5 million from the O’Sullivan Foundation (a foundation created by Irish engineer and investor Sean O’Sullivan ). The money is earmarked for several initiatives: expanding...(read more)

Modeling Stories: Mark Schober

2011-11-09T17:55:34Z

This is the third in a series of posts sharing the stories of teachers using Modeling Instruction. From a childhood interest in dinosaurs and trains, my palentological affinity morphed into an interest in science and later into physics teaching — my fascination...(read more)

Newton’s 3rd Law (or How to Make Effective Use of Video for Instruction)

2011-10-28T19:26:22Z

Exhibit A: Exhibit B: Download the high-quality video clips for each collision . Discuss. Tagged: demonstration , Khan Academy , physics , teaching , technology , video Read More......(read more)

Why I’m a Modeler: Nick Cabot

2011-10-25T18:00:57Z

This is the second in a series of posts sharing the stories of teachers using Modeling Instruction. My journey as a Modeler began 2 years after I completed my master’s in physics which was also how long I’d been teaching physics at Nathan Hale High School...(read more)

This Video Will Solve the Math Ed Crisis

2011-10-23T00:30:00Z

Math education has been in the media spotlight lately, including features about Khan Academy , Singapore Math , Jump Math , and Everyday Math . Inevitably, the comments sections to these articles turn into flame wars between “traditionalists” and “progressives”...(read more)

Why I’m a Modeler

2011-10-18T19:24:39Z

This is the first in a series of posts sharing the stories of teachers using Modeling Instruction. My name is Frank Noschese and I’m on the American Modeling Teachers’ Association Board of Directors as Member-at-Large. Here’s my modeling story: I had...(read more)

Day 24: Young’s Modulus of a Marshmallow

2011-10-12T22:23:03Z

Inspired by an article in The Physics Teacher. Read More......(read more)

The Poison of Points

2011-10-10T23:43:00Z

Some recent turmoil in the Twitterverse about points and cheating… Exhibit A: Clickers and Points Follow @RogerFreedman @RogerFreedman Roger Freedman Why I assign participation pts: RT @ hannahmeisel This class went from 750 persons to 100 after prof...(read more)

Interview on NSTA’s Lab Out Loud Podcast

2011-10-10T21:22:29Z

In which I talk with the hosts of Lab Out Loud , science teachers Dale Basler and Brian Bartel , about blogging, active student engagement, flipped classrooms, pseudoteaching, and the Khan Academy: Episode 66 – But Are They Really Learning? Tagged: blogging...(read more)