Archive for March 4th, 2008
Firewalking; a wonderful introduction to heat
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 4, 2008
- In: firewalking | heat | junior cert | leaving cert | michael shermer | ted.com
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I introduce Heat Capacity by asking the following question: How come, when you get up in the middle of the night to take a pee, and walk across both tile and carpet, the tile seems much colder than the carpet even though in reality both are at the same temperature (room temperature)? It introduces the concept of [...]
YouTube – A Vision of Students Today
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 4, 2008
- In: death penalty | Education | ethics | ICT | students | youtube
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Came across this before but was reminded of it by Ian Yorstan’s del.icio.us favourites. As Ian writes: A short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they [...]
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