In the document Early American Textbooks, the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, of the US Department of Education, says: Nothing gives us insight into the history of education more clearly than do school textbooks of the past They tell us what people thought was worth knowing the — content of education. They provide clues […]
Read MoreDr. Hans Schantz joins us to for an initial discussion of physics. We first establish some context: in the history of science are many initial, unscientific rejections of valid ideas; we need to recognize science by how thinking is done, by method, not by mere authority or prestige or convention. With that said, Dr. Schantz […]
Read MoreIn “Biomedical science education needs a new philosophy, Johns Hopkins researchers say” (Johns Hopkins’ the Hub, 3 Jan 2018), Barbara Benham writes: Today’s graduate biomedical science education system is in need of comprehensive reform, two researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health argue in a new paper. … For their part, Casadevall and […]
Read MoreIn this episode, Dr. Gundula Bosch joins us to discuss the R3ISE Graduate Science Program and the R3 Center for Innovation in Science Education. We discuss her background, the R3ISE program, how it came to be, what it does, why it is needed, the importance of philosophy and a philosophic perspective, and what you can […]
Read MoreIn this episode, Scott, Melanie, and Michael — short because Michael did not have things set up properly to record (sorry!), so you missed some great discussion — have some initial discussion of what science is and how to teach it. Knowing what science is is important for teachers, but also for parents, students, scientists, […]
Read MoreIn this episode, Scott and Michael — after saying hi and catching up, talking about ending the school year, and Michael’s earning his MovNat Level 2 Fitness Instructor certification — discuss more about writing and how it can be done effectively in the sciences. For teachers, parents, and business professionals: everyone who writes, thinks, and […]
Read MoreAward-winning teacher Scott Harris joins Melanie and Michael to discuss what writing is, why it is important in life, and how we should use it in education, and how we should teach it. Essay written by Melanie’s daughter Kira, reviewing the book Coyote America by Dan Flores: http://goldams.com/book-review-by-kira-hoffman-of-dan-flores-book-coyote-america/ Essay written by Melanie’s daughter Kira, reviewing […]
Read MoreIn “Galileo’s Great Discovery: How Things Fall” (D.W. MacDougal, Newton’s Gravity: An Introductory Guide 17 to the Mechanics of the Universe, Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-5444-1_2, # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012) they write Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), the famous Italian mathematician at the leading edge of the scientific revolution that was to […]
Read MoreIn “Jumping From a Height,” someone in the physics department at MIT wrote a good analysis of jumping and landing for a Physics 8.01X class for fall term 2002. (Thanks!) One screen capture shows the situation; another shows the force required to stop you when you fall. As you can see, the force required to […]
Read MoreIn “The Valsalva & Stroke” (10 Sept 2013, Starting Strength), Jonathon Sullivan, MD, PhD, SSC, writes: Athletes who engage in serious, programmatic, heavy resistance training will do so under Valsalva – whether they want to or not, as we shall see. And a very small number of them do, in fact, suffer hemorrhagic strokes. But is this […]
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