1. Embracing Perplexity
Mining the interwebs of blogs, twitter and more.
Friday, April 1, 2011

2. The problem for most of us
Teachers at your institution
Science teachers who care
deeply about the craft of
teaching
you
maybe a
few others.
Friday, April 1, 2011

3. On the internet
twittering blogging STEM
STEM teachers Teachers
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4. How is this useful?
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5. total time to find and write test question with twitter: 20 minutes
time wasted googling “linear data set”: 30 minutes
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6. Discover new things
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7. Find new lessons
http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=7649
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8. Find new lessons
http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=7649
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9. Find Inspiration
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10. Find Inspiration
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11. Inspiration
Everywhere
http://bit.ly/dotPhysics
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12. How do you....
Grade homework?
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13. Connect with physicists everywhere
Wednesdays
9:30pm
http://bit.ly/GlobalPhysics
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14. And lots of grading discussions
sasa
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15. Student A
Understanding of Physics
Student B
End of Semester
Time
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16. How to get started
Read blogs: One of the best places to start: Action
Reaction: http://fnoschese.wordpress.com/
My blog: http://quantumprogress.wordpress.com
Twitter physics teachers: http://bit.ly/physicstweeps
Start your own blog (takes < 2 minutes at
wordpress.com)
Friday, April 1, 2011

17. Guiding Principles of Grading in my class
Your grade should be determined by how well you
understand physics, and nothing else.
Homework is practice, it should not affect your grade.
It doesn’t matter when you learn it, so long as you learn
it.
Assessments must guide you on how to improve.
Assessments need to provide incentive for you to do
the work required to improve.
(picked up from some great discussions on the internet.)
Friday, April 1, 2011