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High school physics education issues as seen by some American teachers: From content standards to critical thinking

Sunday, July 26, 2020

Getting up to speed on airborne virus transmission

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It's natural for us to harbor pride in our former students as they accomplish feats in the world. Of late, Dr. Linsey Marr , professor o...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Virtual Lab Reports

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As we all embark on an uncertain journey of virtual learning, many science teachers are wondering what labs may look like in this virtual sp...
Thursday, July 09, 2020

My Flexible Hybrid Learning Plan

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Welcome to my debut Blog of Phyz post! I was encouraged by Dean Baird to write a bit about my current flexible hybrid learning plan for the...
Monday, July 06, 2020

My district's initial plan for 2020-21

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My district plans to offer high school students three options as the 2020-21 academic year begins.  1. On-site, face-to-face instruction (...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

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I took the one less traveled by. When the pandemic closed schools in mid-March, one of the myriad question marks that loomed was if or how...
Saturday, June 13, 2020

A summer of miracles has been scheduled

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I'm posting this as a documentation of the moment we are in here in the depths of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. School districts ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

The Gendered Mind—another myth that will not die

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I am much more mellow now than I used to be. Sure I'm willing to fight when I think a fight is called for. But I think I was much more o...
Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Plandemic: What a conspiracy theory looks like when it's a baby [u]

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Some critters are totally adorable when they're babies. Conspiracy theories do not. Maybe you came of age in science, reasoning, skeptic...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

The Grade Inflation Pandemic of 2020, Part 2: The Solution

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Call me Physics Oprah. Because everyone on my roster gets an A this semester. Everyone. If you didn't read Part 1 (below) , you won...

The Grade Inflation Pandemic of 2020, Part 1: The Problem

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As the coronavirus pandemic began to take off, schools around the world began to close. Initially it was thought that a month-long shutdown ...
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