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Discovery approaches are just one tool available in a tool box. A good instructor will make lesson-specific choices based on experience...

I don't know what you mean by "direct instruction". Do you mean the lecture method? And I don't see how Cognitive Load Theory (CLT)...

You may not have a problem with it, but the research reaches a different conclusion. Moreover, other methods have been shown to produce...

I think he finds her attractive and he cannot compete with that.

Me, either. It's the old chalk-and-talk teaching method. I refer to it as the low-energy state of teaching. Completely devoid of any...

You should and in my opinion must include lots of demonstrations. Look for and attend as many Physics Magic Shows or the like as you can...

You mean energy is being transferred for a period of time equal to 10 000 seconds. That doesn't describe the amount of energy...

No. One of the great unifications in physics was the discovery that there is an equivalence between mechanical and thermal energy...

Yes, but the author's claim seems to imply that it's something that applies only to quantum mechanics: When in fact it's not unique to...

A physicist was attending a conference in a large venue that happened to also be holding an economics conference. One morning the...

That's true for the basic principles of every physical theory. Look at it this way. A proof starts with assumptions and uses deductive...

Teaching here on the gulf coast, humidity has been the bane of my electrostatics demonstrations and student experiments. In grad school...

... rather vague. So I addressed a specific point of yours: I gave you examples on how this approach fails and leads to wrong...

The problem with Newton's formulation is not that it is too brief, but rather the opposite: He should have skipped the initial prose...

I also presented research-based and other lessons I learned during my professional development activities. Followed up with homework...