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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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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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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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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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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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...
View ArticleClimate 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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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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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...
View ArticleThe 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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