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Newton's Minions: July 2015
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A blog about physics at The Tatnall School in Wilmington DE - student work, demonstrations, lesson ideas, and reflections on standards-based grading. Thursday, July 2, 2015. Atomic Lattices and Glowscript. I'm finishing up (read: procrastinating finishing up) a final paper in a material science course that I'm taking this summer. The paper is about cuprous oxide ($Cu 2O$) and its possible use in a homemade diode. That process is outlined here. HP Friedrichs's homemade diode and holder. 5,5,5), where a.
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Newton's Minions: December 2014
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A blog about physics at The Tatnall School in Wilmington DE - student work, demonstrations, lesson ideas, and reflections on standards-based grading. Thursday, December 4, 2014. At the end of the first term, I give my honors physics students a couple of days to design, implement, and present an independent investigation involving friction. That's about all that I specify, other than the size of the poster and a few details about requiring equations set with software, citations, etc. This group tried to f...
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Thinking about learning and teaching: Open enrollment and the urban college
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Thinking about learning and teaching. I'm an educator and a life-long learner. My blog will be a place to reflect on my practice and the larger issues of U.S. education. However, it will be a place where I try new things, too. Monday, February 23, 2015. Open enrollment and the urban college. Last week's reading for my graduate class was a selection from James Traub's 1994 book City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College. Do we have the societal commitment to do that? No We dont. And we...
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Thinking about learning and teaching: June 2012
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Thinking about learning and teaching. I'm an educator and a life-long learner. My blog will be a place to reflect on my practice and the larger issues of U.S. education. However, it will be a place where I try new things, too. Tuesday, June 5, 2012. TeachersWrite and the Day 2 Quickwrite. This week, one of the wonderful writers and educators I follow on Twitter, Kate Messner, just started a summer writing challenge for teachers called Teachers Write. Including me, sign up to participate in her challenge.
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Thinking about learning and teaching: The competing frames of higher education
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Thinking about learning and teaching. I'm an educator and a life-long learner. My blog will be a place to reflect on my practice and the larger issues of U.S. education. However, it will be a place where I try new things, too. Tuesday, April 14, 2015. The competing frames of higher education. This semester, I've been looking at responses to crises in higher education, and it seems like whenever I turn around, a news or op-ed piece has echoes of the reading I've done this semester. By Hallie Dean,. McInni...
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Concrete Classroom: November 2012
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Sunday, November 25, 2012. I have been thinking about food alot lately. You could blame it on Thanksgiving but it has been on my mind for much longer. We started a family garden a couple of years ago and that started a shift toward paying more attention to what we eat. Right now I am reading Fast Food Nation. On his blog (to summarize them both, every living thing depends on the death of other living things to survive). By Joy Harjo which says better than I how much of life revolves around food. I have s...
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Concrete Classroom: December 2012
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Saturday, December 8, 2012. How to win a war. Last week I lost a war. This week I was determined to do better. The first thing I did this weekend was to actually complete the Venn Diagram assignment myself. I realized many weaknesses of it including poor design and poor choice of texts. I should have created structure before. The assignment to help them understand the texts before asking them to compare them. The Library of Congress also did not really address the topics in the way that I wanted. I have ...
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Concrete Classroom: "What are you willing to get fired for"?
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Monday, January 28, 2013. What are you willing to get fired for"? My favorite session at Educon was session 5. You won't find this title in program, but this is a snapshot of a great conversation that I had with Rob Grecko. He asked me: "What are you willing to get fired for? Poor test scores vs. refusing to teach scripted curriculum? We all make compromises and do things that we may philosophically disagree with at times to work in a system called a school, district, or whatever. When is enough, enough?
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Concrete Classroom: April 2012
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Thursday, April 26, 2012. Should I care if students like me? I usually agree with Seth Godin but I think the tone of his post. About Applause is wrong for education (I realize that he is talking about marketing). Particularly this quote:. Who decides if your work is good? When you are at your best, you do.". Some teachers even brag about students being disciplined or "put in their place.". So should teachers care if students "like" them? All of the content they taught you or how they made you feel? So I ...
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Concrete Classroom: October 2012
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Monday, October 29, 2012. This is a blatant self-promotion post. The local news did a nice story about the #MyParty12 election project which you can see here. Side question: Why do I feel uncomfortable promoting what we are doing? Why don't teachers share more the good things happening in their classrooms? How can we change the education conversation in this country without sharing what we are doing? Links to this post. Sunday, October 21, 2012. Which one is your favorite? Links to this post. Teachers ar...
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