Attached is my first effort to enter a msg on PHYS-L - which did not work. My
thanks to Maurice for his solution to the problem.
I think that a "Black Hole With No Hair" means "uninteresting, having no
special characteristics.
In NJ high school teachers often stressed the math required for physics which
made the course more elitist, and also made the "teaching" easier. In more
recent decades they have done a much better job of making the high school course
more interesting - more phun, than we college/university types. There is a
school system in Hunterdon County, NJ where all freshmen take physics, all
sophomores chemistry and all juniors take biology. What makes this unique is the
"all". It requires different types of courses. The physics selection is based in
part on the level of math taken in 8th grade. The high school is a regional
serving about 5 sending districts, which vary in size.
Date: 21 Jul 97 04:05:27
From: "HODSON" <HODSON@A1@SATURN>
Subject: Re: Physics education via the internet?
To: "Paul Camp" <pjcamp@COASTAL.EDU@WINS@SATURN>
This is my first day on PHYS-L. I have just returned from a one-week vacation.
Rather, my grandchildren's vacation. I select where and pay all bills.
In a week my e-mail greeted me with 171 entries, of which there are 101 yet to
be read.
I tend to be a ROM member - read only member.
With respect to use of computers in teaching. The discussion could be split into
activities within the room - MBL, etc , which are quite common, and activities
with links outside the room. The later are just unfolding. If anything conveys
our inability to help students do and learn physics, it is our struggle with
this more recent extension in the use of the computer.
In my other world I am on the local board of education. Among my committees I
chair the Technology Committee, which is separate from Curriculum. Currently, we
are completing the wiring of every classroom in the system (6 buildings). There
seem to be more activities involving sharing among schools at the upper
elementary school level, than at the high school and college/university levels.
I beleve part of this results from the more frequent use of project type
activities in those grades. The high school and college/university formats are
more rigid.