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Stephen Collins

@socraticbrain

Physics teacher, producing software and print resources to support modeling instruction in Physics

 New Orleans, LA
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Joined January 2013
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Galileo sighed
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Wanted to break Mech E conservation to lead into P conservation; students comparing elasticity in dart-cart collision. happy accident when one group forgets to square v, and E mech is "conserved", effectively discovering P
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Novel Prize winners whiteboard too
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Field trip to LIGO in Livingston, LA Nobel Prize-wing Science and lots of fun
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At #NSTA New Orleans promoting Scottish Physics teacher exchange
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"Write down what you heard in our discussion"
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We use pennies to mark position during the buggy lab. How's this for precision… Not faked (the placement of the buggy was artistic license)
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Congrats to A Richter, Lusher AP Physics student, whose submission was selected by @KreweOfMuses for their 2018 MG cup design
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LIGO@LIGO17 Oct 2017
Explore the locations of #GravitationalWaves detections made by @LIGO/@ego_virgo, overlaid on sky, now w #GW170817 astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk/Grav…
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LIGO@LIGO16 Oct 2017
LIGO, Virgo, and partners make the first detection of #GravityAndLight from colliding neutron stars! ligo.org/detections/GW170817…
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John_Morrow@JJM4u13 Oct 2017
Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety? nyti.ms/2kGzOOr What kind of generation are we producing?
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How do you test rockets capable of 7.5M lbs thrust? Concrete and steel 145ft into the ground! 205 dB for Saturn V test
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At the Infinity science center in Mississippi
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Class trip to see #skeletonhouse - Halloween in NOLA!
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Congrats to LIGO scientists, here in Louisiana and at University of Glasgow #NobelPrize2017
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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize3 Oct 2017
BREAKING NEWS The 2017 #NobelPrize in Physics is awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne @LIGO.
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Engineering / design teachers: check out this graphic on how failure occurs
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It's (way past) time to change traditional teaching npr.org/2016/04/13/474120877…
Stanford Physicist Embarks On Mission To Improve Undergraduate Teaching

Stanford Physicist Embarks On Mission To Improve Undergraduate Teaching

Research shows that some teaching methods are a lot better than others. But why aren't more colleges and universities even bothering to measure teaching effectiveness? Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, a...

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Yummy Math@Yummymath4 Nov 2015
Making Failure Harder Work Than Passing | Edutopia edut.to/1N1xzMN #edchat #assessment #mindset #teaching
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Great stuff at #openedx2015
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