Do physics teachers have a role to play in teaching about population growth? One could argue that the study of physics is separate from the world of human concerns — it’s concerned with the physical laws governing how the world works. Our role is to educate students about these abstract laws. The […]

Today’s session is about using interactive lecture demonstrations to effectively improve your students’ understanding of concepts.
As I mentioned in my previous post, while students like demos, they don’t get the things we want them to get unless they predict the results of the experiement or somehow get involved. David Sokoloff showed how they have […]

Our education research group here at University of Colorado had a visit and a very interesting talk by Sanjoy Mahajan, director of the teaching and learning laboratory at MIT and former physics professor, last semester. He focuses on understanding and improving students number sense, mostly through use of approximations and estimations. He’s a […]