FWIW, since May’s arrived, here’s my all-time favorite teacher joke: It’s toward the end of the school year. Student: “What can I do to improve my grade.” Teacher: “It’s May.” Student: “What MAY I do to improve my grade?” 😂😂😂

After assessing midterms, a hypothesis. It’s been my observation that my musicians in physics generally do very well - generally better than peers. This year-as ever-I noted that about 30% of my students who answered incorrectly didn’t really read problem. Not my musicians.🤔 #iteachphysics 1/2

@annieabrams.bsky.social You May have already see: from tonight’s PBS News Hour. youtu.be/nB5deLzyZ6E?...

A good analogy (metaphor?🤔) for learning physics: it’s not how you fall, but how you get up again. (starting my classes with this tomorrow 😉) #iteachphysics youtu.be/A6Lt3k0Rg8E?...

Not the Onion, not the NYT Pitchbot. Actual WSJ.😂😂😂

Developing next generation of readers. Bringing these to my granddaughter today (kindergarten and beginning to read). I tell my physics students that one of the best ways to do well in physics is to read for 15 consecutive minutes - no distractions - each day; it will rewire your brain.😊 Peace!

FWIW: when my physics vets stop by to visit after their first semester at college is pretty danged cool.😎 I’ll be smiling all weekend. (my school does a big Christmas break send off and it’s a tradition where the members of the previous year’s graduating class are invited)

Those emergency broadcast system tests sure hit different after watching House of Dynamite.🫤

I'm hoping y'all higher ed instructors appreciate the effort I'm putting into these kiddos' lab reports. All I can say is that there's a LOT of growth going on. 😬 #iteachphysics (at Chesapeake AAPT meeting a couple years ago, my peers near demanded I do these as the their first years were so bad)

#iteachphysics Ok, Team: add to the list of things to be careful with on the board (drawing rockets, baseball bats, etc.). Yesterday working an innocuous block at rest on inclined plane, I labeled friction “Ffs”.🫣 Be safe out there.

Just gotta say: holy moly! Carl Sagan’s “mote of dust in a sunbeam” through the teaser for House of Dynamite. No words.😬 youtu.be/0w6wUqWU3yU?...

My first school used PBIS. Yikes!😳 I made it three years, but I think PBIS is mostly hype, and what Modesto schools are seeing probably isn’t too surprising for any school using PBIS. youtu.be/ErJio51eypo?...

@mleembruggen.bsky.social Just saw you on SciShow. Really good stuff.😎 #iteachphysics youtu.be/vYf0ytn_vkw?...

Just back from our first XC invitational meet of the year. The Team did great, but I’m here to say: Any time the coaches are also teachers at the school, it’s a GOOD thing. It’s about relationships, perspective, and balance. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.🫡

Checked equipment for tomorrows kinematics lab #1, and unboxed a couple new buggy carts. Nicely done Arbor Scientific. Nicely done.😎 #iteachphysics

Hannah Fry on why the London Underground is so warm (hot!) in the summer now. Seems like good potential for thermodynamics discussion.🤔 (spoiler: has to do with clay it’s built through and all the trains / ppl that move through it daily). #iteachphysics Mind the Gap.😎 youtube.com/shorts/zlI0_...

#iteachphysics Human center-of-mass demo. 😎

Biggest SY accomplishment: declared pandemic over & got back to pacing/depth of 2018-19. Sure, some covid learning loss, but more convinced it’s student (& parent) resistance to getting back to where we were. Those easy As, completion credit, test corrections were a sweet deal.😉 #iteachphysics

Almost there, Team.🫡 #iteachphysics (reposted, had a misspelling)

APP1 released FRQs 2025 just released. I’m cool with these.😎 #iteachphysics apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap...

@science.org: REALLY liking the new format.😎 Fellow science Ts: I’ve been an AAAS member for about 10 years, and have found Science to be a great tool to get at my scientific literacy skills (I also feel the first time my students read an actual scientific article shouldn’t be in college). Peace!

I know there may come a time when I am no longer able to do these kinds of things, but that time has not yet arrived.😉 (from this year’s yearbook - I’m about to have a medicine ball thrown at me) Peace! #iteachphysics

YouTube short capturing key points of Derek Muller’s presentation at the Perimeter Institute a few weeks ago. (Can AI replace teachers? summary: no) #iteachphysics youtube.com/shorts/HnT9S...

Just finished reading John Green’s “Everything is Tuberculosis.” Outstanding.👍👍👍 Too late to get it on my school’s summer reading list (our library already has it - science, science history, and social justice, good stuff!) but next year for sure. Peace!

Kindly do not ask me to help train Skynet. I’m my own John Connor, and I know where this goes.

Really not trying to cause any problems, but how can there even be “hundreds of books” about putting? You hit a little ball into a cup with a stick on level ground covered with well-maintained grass. Aren’t you overthinking it?🤔 I mean throw in some windmills or Godzilla, and I get it.

Another data point for the great @annieabrams.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

Not dancing on their grave, but I find it sort of ironic that Chegg is suing Google for ruining their business due to the effect of Google’s large language models.🙃 Students figured out pretty quick that they no longer have to pay to look up answers.

This photo from CNN today on a story on the Reagan Airport crash struck me. Two firefighters rendering honors to two of the Soldiers killed in the crash. The don’t know the persons’ race or sex / gender. They only know they were US Soldiers. Something cadet bone spurs will never understand. 🇺🇸🫡

Reinstituted written lab reports last year after my higher ed peers asked (demanded!) based on their experiences with first year college physics students. I was agnostic at first, as I felt we met learning objectives well with our "board meetings" (group discussions) after labs. 1/3 #iteachphysics

Catching up on reading & just read this in Science: Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Bottom line: gender gap in physics, etc., degrees closing at more selective unis.🤔 I just checked ERIC & only abstract, but good summary here: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #iteachphysics

I can’t help but notice things have significantly quieted down on the Great New Jersey Drone excitement. 🤔 Highly recommend the great @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social discussion of the social contagion of this at: youtu.be/-NI6lxgHaN8?...

Team - we’re looking at summer reading books (already) & I just completed Dava Sobel’s latest “The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science.” I’m recommending it 👍 The review in Science sums it up well: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/2 #iteachphysics

Data point: first time since the pandemic that I feel my students really mastered N3L. Willing to accept there was some covid learning loss, but think bigger problem was many students got used to lower expectations & resisted getting back in the fight. Unit assessment Thursday.🫡 #iteachphysics

#iteachphysics & STEP UP Teammates: in case you haven’t heard yet, the Perimeter Institute announced today that Dr. Marcela Carena will become their new executive director. 👏👏👏 Peace! perimeterinstitute.ca/news/perimet...

I was an active duty US Army officer for 25 years. Never missed an election, but had to vote by mail. Voted early this year. 👍 I still get choked up voting in person. It’s such a fundamental part of our democracy & I’ll never take it for granted. Peace!

@anndaraabrams.bsky.social How great to see you over here 👍👍👍 I just passed your book to my department leader to read as we look at why we do what we do with AP classes (truly, AP precalc was the proverbial last straw). Peace!

Everything’s fine. #iteachphysics Post by physics Professor Paul Cottle, of Florida State U, on tragic shortfall of future Ts vs requirement in FL (I think many states would show similar results). bridgetotomorrow.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/f... This chart:😕

Attended AAPT Chesapeake Section AAPT fall meeting, UMD-College Park yesterday. Best part: discussion w/college instructors on how we can better prepare our students. My view: connecting HS -> college instruction should be formalized as a priority for AAPT local sections.👍 Peace! #iteachphysics