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RANDOM THOUGHTS OF A DETERMINED TEACHER:
Computation, didactics, and all that


Lecture, Oslo University / Blindern, Sep-2005

 I
  • ACCESSIBILITY VS. AWARENESS


    Three types of courses:

      194x-1980: computing power reserved to research grade work
     
      1980-now: computers widely available, but used primarily for other things than computing
 II
  • BLACKBOX VS. TOOLBOX
    Three types of courses:

      Numerics for the teacher, physics for the students
     
      Numerics for the software, physics for the students
     
      Numerics and physics for the students


 III


  • EXAMPLE: A TUTORIAL WITH BLACK BOX APPLETS

      Introductory Statistical Mechanics
     

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