Here’s a graph showing some guy’s position as he’s out for a walk:
This graph shows the position of some guy out for a walk. Can you tell what he’s doing?
Take a moment and describe in your own words what he’s doing.…
Here’s a graph showing some guy’s position as he’s out for a walk:
This graph shows the position of some guy out for a walk. Can you tell what he’s doing?
Take a moment and describe in your own words what he’s doing.…
Comet McNaught wow'd observers in the Southern Hemisphere in 2007. (Image by chrs_snll on flickr CC)
We often hear about “evidence-based teaching and learning.” In fact, it’s a pillar of the approach to course development and transformation that we follow in the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative.…
[I wrote this review of situated learning, also known as situated cognition, in 2009 for the internal communications discussion board we use in the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative. I go back to it often enough, mostly to find the reference for the amazing paper by James Paul Gee, that I'm reposting here.]
We’ve all seen it, and probably done it, too.…
I’m really excited to be running another peer instruction workshop with my colleague Cynthia Heiner. This time, we’re tailoring the content of the clicker questions to biology, thanks to the input (and organization) of our CWSEI colleague, Bridgette Clarkston (@funnyfishes on Twitter).…