Category: History of physics education
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Some thoughts on curriculum development and instructional design: Part 6 – Theory into practice
In the preceding blogs in this series, I have provided my thoughts on some curriculum-making and instructional design theory and processes, with the occasional practical example. In this blog I will look at how such theory can be put to practical use. One observation, and suggestion, I would like to…
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Some thoughts on curriculum development and instructional design: Part 2 – An early case study
In my previous blog, the first in a short series, I set out some background to the process of curriculum making and instructional design. In this next instalment I will describe a significant piece of research-informed curriculum and instructional design I undertook relatively early in my career in the early…
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Scotland’s unconventional turn on electric current
Every now and again amongst Scottish physics teachers the topic of why electron flow rather than conventional current is commonly used to teach electric circuits flares up. This post is a summary of some investigations I made to try and find out what might sit behind that decision. Probably the…
