Cardiac Modeling: The Devil’s in the Details
I’ve included all of these details in my previous posts (The Extremely Simple Stuff , The Plateau of Action Potentials, Why Computer Modeling?) not because I want you to remember [...]
FIRST LEGO League and the Building Blocks of Learning Success
Originally posted on Policy Shop | The Demos Blog: Ideas for the Common Good on March 31, 2011. Reposted with the author’s consent. I spent last weekend amidst screaming crowds, multi-colored [...]
Cardiac Modeling: Why Computer Modeling?
Okay, let’s take a step back and consider thy “why” of using computers to model cardiac cells (the arguments that I’ll put forth apply not only to heart cells, but [...]
Cardiac Modeling: The Plateau of Action Potentials
Part 1 In Part 1, I examine the basic mechanism for cardiac electrophysiology. In this post, I’ll examine ion movement and channels. However, shortly after potassium starts moving out of [...]
Teachers’ Talking Science
Teachers’ TalkingScience is an online collection of free science lesson plans that can help you spark your students’ excitement about science. Every month, two new lessons based on Science Friday’s [...]
Cardiac Modeling: The Extremely Simple Stuff
As computing power has steadily increased over the years, especially the past couple of decades, the use of mathematical models to simulate living systems inside computers has gained in popularity [...]
Teaching the Earthquake
One of the best ways for people to learn is through personal experience. Most of my “ah-ha” moments in life were very basic ideas about how the earth works, but [...]
Ye Olde Education
Author George Haines (@oline73) The thing I remember most about reading Beowulf in high school is how bizarre the language seemed to me. It barely made sense when my teacher [...]
Do you SciDo?
The SciDo Collaborative is an international affiliation of teachers of the sciences. At its core, SciDo is a resource sharing site. Through the use of collections in Google docs, teachers [...]
Beep Beep BioBus
I am a mobile science laboratory. The students I visit explore the world around them with research-grade microscopes, and make their own discoveries under the guidance of professional scientists. I [...]
