Articles Tagged with science teaching

A changing syllabus

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What to learn

“Quantum Mechanics” is not what it used to be.

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Microclimates

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Weather and learning

If you look closely, there is enormous diversity.  This can be a problem.

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Burnout

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Long-serving workers

How long is too long to do a single task?

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time and tide

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Teaching complexity

Almost every subject is complicated if you go deeply enough into it.  Where do you stop teaching?

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Teaching old things

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The uses of the obsolete

Something that’s no longer used can still be illuminating.

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The theoretical piston

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A useful idea

We ask a chicken-and-egg question about a textbook staple.

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Rewriting the textbooks

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When, and why

We take a tired cliché seriously.

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Programmable (III)

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The right problem

Why do we only teach the easy problems?

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The hodograph

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Dropped from the program

We encounter things that are no longer taught.

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Take note

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From the archives

Our consultants review some old writings.

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