March 2008

What the heck IS active learning?

March 26, 2008

Here in educationland, we’re always touting the benefits of “active learning” or “active engagement.” Someone just recently sent a message to the group asking, hey, does anybody have an agreed-upon definition of what active learning is? One responded, “I find active learning to be one of those phrases that is tricky to define. Many people [...]

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I don’t think so!

March 23, 2008

Hi everyone, I posted an episode to my podcast, Science Teaching Tips. Click this link to check it out: 33. I Don’t Think So – Stephanie

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The Teaching Box

March 14, 2008

Hi everyone, I posted an episode to my podcast, Science Teaching Tips. Click this link to check it out: 32. The Teaching Box Tory Brady from the Teacher Institute talks about one of the tools that we’ve found to be incredibly useful in our teaching, to help keep lessons organized.

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Carbon Dioxide… It’s a Gas!

March 7, 2008

Hi everyone, I posted an episode to my podcast, Science Teaching Tips. Click this link to check it out: 31. Carbon dioxide – Its a gas! TI staff educator Eric Muller shows me how to carbonate my tongue. Blech! More of Eric Muller’s activities: www.exo.net/~emuller – Stephanie

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Cheap solar energy?

March 7, 2008

I spent most of my PhD working on conducting plastics for making solar cells. The idea behind the plastics (or more specifically, conjugated polymers) is that they would be cheaper to make than silicon. They’re not very efficient, but they only have to be efficient enough to outweigh the cost of the substrate that they’re [...]

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