Podcasts and Podcasting

In case you missed it there was a piece on NPR on January 1, “Physicists seek to lose the lecture as teaching tool.” This is part of a series on education and education research that’s been ongoing, and extremely well reported, at American Radio Works.  They have a wide variety of episodes on online learning, [...]

Thanks to the wonderful efforts of Matt Riggsbee over at Compadre (whom I owe a beer or three), the Learning about Teaching Physics podcast has a beautiful webhome.  I still have just the two podcasts produced (on clickers and classroom demonstrations), but stay tuned for the next one on learning styles (or, the myth thereof).  [...]

In this first episode of my new Learning About Teaching Physics podcast, we explore classroom demonstrations.  Do they accomplish what we hope that they will? Physics is the study of nature. So, physics classes typically include demonstrations of how those laws of nature play out, often in surprising ways. But do students see what we [...]

I’m an avid podcast listener — this is how I get my information about the world, listening to wonderfully produced audio pieces while I drive around doing errands.  I recently discovered American Radio Works – a set of documentarians from American Public Media.  They do TV documentaries, but also these wonderful, well-researched and well-produced radio [...]