i came in He has been a scholar for over 20 years as a member of the Department of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Here, the department is small enough that we can all share the course load… down to quantum mechanics.
During the first few years of the pandemic, everyone involved in education had to adapt, and most of our work was not conducted in the most ideal environment. My school started by moving all classes online using Google Meet. (It wasn’t very interesting.) This was supplemented with a short lecture video. (I actually enjoyed making them. (This was terrible.)
Remote learning has some advantages, but as a teacher, I’ve noticed that we’ve all picked up some bad habits over the past few years. Have you ever noticed that watching too much football might keep you from reaching your normal fitness level? Well, the same thing happens with learning.
I know that by exercising, I can hit the gym after vacation or get outside to feel fit and ready to take on the world. I think it’s about figuring out how to use technology constructively instead of relying on it as a crutch.
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It can be shocking to realize how much power we carry around with us all the time. Your phone is not only a very powerful computer, but it also has a decent camera and a number of other sensors.
Also, smartphones often belong to schools. It is possible to collect and analyze data using your smartphone. In the experiment, students can use the phone’s accelerometer to measure the distance traveled by the elevator. Or how about measuring the speed of the International Space Station using long-exposure photography? Write Python code on your phone to solve physics problems, or use the built-in LIDAR to visualize a room in 3D. You can also create maps.
In a large lecture-style class, have students use their mobile phones to vote on their answers to conceptual questions as a first step in the class discussion. (One of my favorites is about the acceleration at the top of the tossed ball. A common answer is that since the velocity is 0, the acceleration is also 0, but this is incorrect. At the highest point, where the velocity is also zero, the ball magically appears to be stationary.)
However, there is one way for students to use mobile phones in class, which I don’t think is necessarily a good idea. they take pictures all(Admittedly, this has been going on for a while, so it’s not purely pandemic related.) Now, don’t get me wrong – I take a lot of photos too. is not a great way to record It also helps remind us of things we need to do, like taking pictures of our shopping list. So what’s wrong with students taking pictures in physics solving and equation derivation classes?