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A group of educational researchers have created an app for iOS, Android, PCs, and Macs, to teach physics to 9-graders. I'm a strong advocate of Physics-Chemistry-Biology, the reverse of how science is taught in high schools now.
The app, Exploring Physics, is meant to take particular physics curriculum already being taught in a number of public school districts, including Columbia's, and make it available digitally. The Exploring Physics curriculum app is designed to replace traditional lecture-based learning with discussions and hands-on experiments.
“The idea in the app is to have students learn by doing stuff,” said Meera Chandrasekhar, the co-creator of the app and a curators' teaching professor in the MU Department of Physics and Astronomy. “Even though it’s a digital app, it actually involves using quite a lot of hands-on materials.”
I thought this was a neat app to have and use. Teachers: See if your districts fund this for you. Students: You're likely not going to be able to use it DURING exams. Use it to reinforce your understanding of lecture and notes. The best apps of all are your eyes, ears, attention and participation.
Again, I get nothing except one, self-serving thing: a replacement workforce for when I retire. Call it my "school-to-STEM" pipeline.
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Site: Exploring Physics
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