Possible studies
Research I'd like to do
Contents
- 1 Who is creating the new Physicism?
- 2 Online electronics tutorials
- 3 The teapot versus the bouncing ball:The hello world of 3D and animation
- 4 What would be a good high school STS course?
- 5 Can we determine how people differentiate textbooks from Amazon comments?
- 6 Did citations in 1910s journals match nationalism of entire journal?
- 7 Can we rewrite classic papers for pre-college readers?
- 8 Did physics teachers hack schooling for their purposes as opposed to government's purposes?
- 9 In physics education, does a choice of pedagogy affect a choice of curriculum?
- 10 What happens to user agency in the pro-sumer (producer/consumer) model when someone produces something without being sure there is ever going to be an audience/client?
- 11 Will graphs comparing biology curriculum dynamism to physics education stagnation shake physics educators to consider forcing change?
- 12 Do objects show more dynamism than people or texts, in physics education?
- 13 Can we study physics curriculum change with Actor Network Theory?
- 14 Is physics curriculum change better presented as a rational conclusion or a social movement?
- 15 What inspired the work to make curriculum on quantum physics for K12 in Italy?
- 16 How well does Contact, the movie and/or the book, reflect the most important issues in late 20th century science and technology?
- 17 How is physicism explained in physics textbooks?
- 18 Is the marketing of the internet as a utility comparable to Samuel Insull's innovative marketing of electricity as a utility?
- 19 Graph of number of items in Isis bibliography under 'textbooks', year
- 20 Is it necessary to use a textbook with an unfrozen sequence to teach a course with an unfrozen sequence?
Who is creating the new Physicism?
What is the shape, over time or associated with topics, of expressions of physicism in The Physics Teacher?
Online electronics tutorials
Do the tutorials belie a certain subset of electronics hobbyists and professionals, perhaps leaning towards the pedagogues or the retirees, or people paid well, or people not paid well?
The teapot versus the bouncing ball:The hello world of 3D and animation
http://jlongster.com/s/dom3d/example3.html
What would be a good high school STS course?
We might refer to "Science/Technology/Society As Reform In Science Education" editor Robert Yager, 1996.
Can we determine how people differentiate textbooks from Amazon comments?
How can we process comments for analysis? With example methods, can we pattern opinions of physics textbooks?
Did citations in 1910s journals match nationalism of entire journal?
Considering Annalen der Physik, Le Radium, or Nature, did the proportion of international citations exceed or underrepresent the internationality of authorship? Inspired by presentation on Rutherford by Melinda Baldwin at HSS 2011.
Can we rewrite classic papers for pre-college readers?
Do they need rewriting before consumption is possible? Can we make texts, modules, study units?
Did physics teachers hack schooling for their purposes as opposed to government's purposes?
In physics education, does a choice of pedagogy affect a choice of curriculum?
Do the teacher's styles or methods lead to a selection of a subset of all reasonable content? Evidence might be linked to citizen science, work with organizations like NASA, differing career paths.
What happens to user agency in the pro-sumer (producer/consumer) model when someone produces something without being sure there is ever going to be an audience/client?
Will graphs comparing biology curriculum dynamism to physics education stagnation shake physics educators to consider forcing change?
Do objects show more dynamism than people or texts, in physics education?
The measure of dynamism may be taken over a range of 20 to 100 years, or between schools.
Can we study physics curriculum change with Actor Network Theory?
See Bruno Latour.
Is physics curriculum change better presented as a rational conclusion or a social movement?
What inspired the work to make curriculum on quantum physics for K12 in Italy?
How well does Contact, the movie and/or the book, reflect the most important issues in late 20th century science and technology?
How is physicism explained in physics textbooks?
Does the meat of the text reflect the physicism expressed in the introduction?
Is the marketing of the internet as a utility comparable to Samuel Insull's innovative marketing of electricity as a utility?
Graph of number of items in Isis bibliography under 'textbooks', year
See Edcuation in Isis.
Is it necessary to use a textbook with an unfrozen sequence to teach a course with an unfrozen sequence?
Compare an unfrozen book like holbrow or Moore, to a reformed frozen book.
