180: Day 5: This 180 stuff is HARD…

OK, I didn’t take any photos today, just too busy helping students to remember.

Today’s reflection: Don’t worry about spending too much time establishing good lab/classroom practices with your students. If you lead a student-centered class, it may be the first time they have really experienced that, and they need to learn the ropes. Today I didn’t get nearly as far through the completion of the bouncing ball lab, but the time spent helping individual groups seemed to develop good understanding of the goals of the class. The rewards will show up later 🙂

Meanwhile, this morning I took Andy Shore’s 180 post warning about not turning off one’s brain when turning on the calculator, and revised it, “for the 21st century.” You can see a screenshot of the poster below, or download a PDF copy here.