Learning What Makes a Good Science Student? Full credit for this post goes to Mac Hird (@ImMacHird), who is blogging and collaborating with my chemistry students this trimester. The first blog assignment was to share thoughts on “What makes a…
Teaching “What if you Won the Lottery?” This is the question that lead me to becoming a teacher. I was a second year university student, further away from knowing what I wanted to do with my life than ever before….
Science Tech vs Paper I’m very fortunate to teach at a school that has a one-to-one laptop program. Each student I teach has their own laptop that has scribing capabilities, students can use a stylus to “write”…
Learning More Learning: Superheroes and Global Warming Now that I’m starting to get the hang of this teaching thing, I have gained back my appetite to learn more. Luckily for me (and everyone else), the internet is so easily accessible…
Math World’s Largest Rubik’s Cube Mosaic Today, I came across an article on Makezine.com today about the world’s largest rubik’s cube mosaic that was recently built (is built the right word for art?). Spoiler alert: the article tells you…
Assessment Why Tests? I’ve been thinking a lot about final assessments, and assessment in general, lately. If we started education today, with no knowledge of what has happened in the past, would we still have tests?…
