We spoke with Danny about the work Colorado University has done to embed computational thinking into their upper division physics courses, specifically Classical Mechanics/Math Methods. We talked about the types of skills that help students succeed and we had our weekly flame war involving Python and Mathematica.

Here’s the recording.

This week (Wednesday, 9/19, 9:30pm ET) we’ll be speaking with Wolfgang Christian about Easy Java Simulations. Wolfgang plans to walk us through installation, implementation, and optimization, so feel free to install and follow along with us.

Last week we talked with Dave Fish, who works at the Perimeter Institute in Canada. He shared the history of the institute and also showed us many of the outreach efforts they work on. It sounds really exciting to have opportunity to take short courses on current theoretical physics topics from the people on the cutting edge.

Here’s the recording.

This week (Wednesday, 9:30pm ET) we’ll be talking with Danny Caballero, from Colorado University, about computational thinking in mid-level physics major courses. Join us!

Last week we spoke with Gary Abud about the notion of branding your science classroom. Gary talked about how the basic notions of what brand identity means and how you can leverage it to build a better community/culture in your classroom.

Here’s the recording.

This week we’ll be hearing from Dave Fish who works at the Perimeter Institute.