Category Archives: Me

About myself.

Physician, Heal Thyself!

Posted on October 5, 2006 by Ian

Failure leads to humility, which leads to brutal self-inspection, which leads to insight. I’m an educational researcher by profession. I tend to believe that I know a lot about how to teach well, especially physics. I’ve read the literature, attended … Continue reading →

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Beating Jet Lag: Biorhytmic Shock and Awe

Posted on July 3, 2006 by Ian

Warning: There’s no thinking twice in this post, no deep pondering on thought or learning or perception. Just a quick little scribble about something I do that may or may not be useful to you. Or, at least, entertaining. I … Continue reading →

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Waiting

Posted on February 20, 2006 by Ian

This is a follow-up to my previous post about normalcy, Incarceration Makes Me Crabby. My most scarce commodity, by far, is time. Given my goals, resources, and lifestyle, I’m neither cash-limited nor opportunity-limited nor knowledge-limited. I’m time-limited. There just isn’t … Continue reading →

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Incarceration Makes Me Crabby

Posted on February 17, 2006 by Ian

I’m two months into a half-year sojourn in South Africa. A colleague and I are working at the University of Fort Hare, guest lecturing and conducting workshops for rural secondary school science teachers. My colleague is here on a Fulbright-funded … Continue reading →

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Why “Think Twice”?

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Ian

By profession, I’m a research professor in the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts. My background is physics, but my expertise and field of specialty is physics education research: what it means to “know” physics (or science … Continue reading →

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