Category: Science Education

Today was kind of a slow day. I let myself sleep in–till 8:00 🙂 I saw one plenary speaker who discussed his role in international physics education. I found it interesting at the time, but can’t remember many of the details now. The second plenary speaker was Janet Guthrie, the first woman to qualify for the Indy 500, speaking on...

I’m settled in the dorms, and have been sharing with a nice guy from outside Ann Arbor (“NOT” UM, our colors are green). He’s checking out tonight, so I’ll have the room to myself tonight. Sunday I spent the morning in two workshops, the first on using VPython (a computer programming language) to have students create models of physical actions...

Today we rode the “Human Air Puck.” You sit on a piece of plywood with a vacuum in your hands. The vacuum blows air through a hole under the plywood, and you float along. You can see a video of me riding it here. Caution: It’s a big file (2 MB). I’m not sure the exact format of the video...