…these road shows because we made a lot of friends. For instance, David Vernier learned about probeware at one of our workshops in Beaverton, Oregon. [David Vernier has since founded…
…1987 Heather Brasell’s dissertation from the University of Florida research compared traditional paper-and-pencil graphing methods with the instantaneous computer displays equipped with sensors. She found that students have a significant…
…Workbench. Getting a monthly paycheck was amazing for a poor postdoc. Bob Tinker flew to interview me for a full-time job. We had an instant chemistry – we are both…
…challenges for students. Our species of choice was dragons. We would show a dragon’s chromosomes, for instance, and ask students to figure out how to change its genes to make…
…modern Web browser without the use of Java, plug-ins, or software installation (with one exception: the use of sensors in SmartGraphs calls up an invisible Java applet). Our goal is…
…the development of app stores and marketplaces and turned once complex installations into simple — even enjoyable — single click processes. The success of these stores can’t be ignored. The…
The following are two Energy2D simulations that compare convection and conduction, which should run within this page if you have installed Java and Java applets are enabled with your browser….
…requires an understanding of physics. For instance, did the shoe start to move when the force went above zero (2 seconds), when it reached a maximum (3.2 seconds), or when…
…To understand the gas laws, for instance, students need to understand how pressure and temperature manifest at the atomic scale. Molecular Workbench experiments demonstrate that temperature is simply the average…
…questions. For instance, in order to assess whether students knew how to measure the current in a circuit, we posed separate questions about where to place the multimeter leads, whether…