YouTube Wednesdays 2020!
YouTube Wednesdays are alive and well! Every Wednesday I try to introduce my students to guest speakers from around the world talking about something related to topics in Math and Computing that we're studying without ever leaving class!
The 2nd semester has just begun and I have run out of Tom Lehrer FIlks about Math and Science. Maybe we'll play Chris Hadfield aka The Singing Astronaut on the ISS, Aurelio Voltaire, Weird Al, DaVinci's NoteBook, Bare Naked Ladies, Tom Smith, They Might Be Giants, Epic Rap Battles or How It Should Have Ended?
Another thing I changed up this year: I started the first semester, after filking, with StarTalk TV videos by Neil DeGrase Tyson from the National Geographic App. I played The Martian episode for my CompSci students and the Ramanujan episode for my Math students. Now, second semester I'll start with Bill Nye Saves The World episodes from Netflix! I'll have to screen The Martian and The Man Who Knew Infinity movies after AP Exams this year too!
Then I start showing NOVA and National Geographic documentaries. At this point, I'll show a different documentary in Math class as opposed to Computer Science class since some of my students are in both classes. Above is a new documentary I screened in November about a laptop someone lost in the Mediterranean some 2000 years ago???
I think that the TED Talk below talks about the inventer of this laptop! What say you?
Update:
I did something a little different this year. I decided to start each month with a filk. So, the first Wednesday of the month this whole year so far has been devoted to Tom Lehrer: New Math, The Elements, Lobachevsky and Hanukkah In Santa Monica plus Christmas Time! The only exception was January when I did my New Year's Resolution post. The 2nd semester has just begun and I have run out of Tom Lehrer FIlks about Math and Science. Maybe we'll play Chris Hadfield aka The Singing Astronaut on the ISS, Aurelio Voltaire, Weird Al, DaVinci's NoteBook, Bare Naked Ladies, Tom Smith, They Might Be Giants, Epic Rap Battles or How It Should Have Ended?
Another thing I changed up this year: I started the first semester, after filking, with StarTalk TV videos by Neil DeGrase Tyson from the National Geographic App. I played The Martian episode for my CompSci students and the Ramanujan episode for my Math students. Now, second semester I'll start with Bill Nye Saves The World episodes from Netflix! I'll have to screen The Martian and The Man Who Knew Infinity movies after AP Exams this year too!
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Below you will find a number of educational documentaries I show in various orders each year. I usually start the year with some Filks by Tom Lehrer and a few documentaries about Admiral Grace Murray Hopper. Then I start showing NOVA and National Geographic documentaries. At this point, I'll show a different documentary in Math class as opposed to Computer Science class since some of my students are in both classes. Above is a new documentary I screened in November about a laptop someone lost in the Mediterranean some 2000 years ago???
I think that the TED Talk below talks about the inventer of this laptop! What say you?
Don't forget about PI Day! That's a perfect time for "What PI Sounds Like" and the VI Hart Channel on YouTube! What about the Symphony Of Science?
Below, you will find a sample of all my YouTube Wednesdays from just a few years ago!
Last, but not least, we talked about Watson the SuperComputer on NOVA and Jeopardy. I hope you enjoyed our YouTube interludes. Have a great Summer, see you next year!
May YouTube Wednesdays!
YouTube Wednesdays would not be complete without the Nova about Cliff Stoll and the Cuckoo's Egg!
April YouTube Wednesdays!
We started one of my favorite YouTube Wednesday features. In the name of AP Computer Science review of Computer History and Computer Literacy, I played the only National Geographic Special not about warm, fuzzy animals! It's called "Miniature Miracle: The Computer Chip" and it's all about the history of electronic computing. I remember seeing this live on NBC around 1983 listening to Alexander Scourby's iconic voice and Elmer Bernstein's phenomenal musical theme! I used to have this on online, but YouTube made me take it down. I copied it from my VHS version, recorded live with rabbit ears, to a DVD. I then uploaded it to YouTube as MP4 files. I still have these files to play with VLC, unfortunately I can't show them to you online. You can get your own VHS copy on EBay or Amazon if you like! Here's a little review from 1985 in The New York Times!
February & March YouTube Wednesdays!
We haven't had a lot of time of late for YouTube Wednesdays what with all the Snow Days and February Break. We did manage to start a NOVA called "Ancient Computer" about a lump of bronze found off the coast of Greece. It was found with several lost works of art dated circa 70 BC. However, noone thought anything of this lump of bronze until someone decided to X-ray it! I'm showing this episode of NOVA for 10 minutes each Wednesday through the end of March. BTW, this used to be on YouTube. Unfortunately, the Nova YouTube Channel was converted to show only 2-3 minute previews, so you have to go to PBS.org to view full episodes. I used the PBS app on my Kindle Fire HD 8.9 over WiFi. I also used an HDMI cable to attach the Kindle to the SmartBoard in HDMI mode.
Midterm Week: Ingite, TED and Filk!
Showing a 5-10 minute YouTube at the beginning of class once a week is a great way to start a 5-10 minute discussion on interesting topics related to your curriculum to which students may otherwise never be exposed!
Recently, I tried out an Ignite Thursday. The Ignite Show used to be on the BBC. It was great in that the speaker had exactly 5 minutes to speak. Also, the speaker had 20 slides to talk about that auto-advanced every 15 seconds. Needless to say, this makes for a very quick and informative, presentation!
I found a nice Ignite by a curator at the Walters Museum, William Noel. His talk was about how he discovered long lost texts by Archimedes buried inside a medieval palimpsest. What's amazing about this discovery is that the text shows Archimedes doing advanced Combinatorics and Calculus circa 200BC!
That Ignite video led us to a TED Tuesday also by William Noel! Now I think I have to show a documentary about the Antikythera Device! There's a nice NOVA about Ancient Computers and here's a related youtube.
Don't forget VI Hart!
Recently, I tried out an Ignite Thursday. The Ignite Show used to be on the BBC. It was great in that the speaker had exactly 5 minutes to speak. Also, the speaker had 20 slides to talk about that auto-advanced every 15 seconds. Needless to say, this makes for a very quick and informative, presentation!
I found a nice Ignite by a curator at the Walters Museum, William Noel. His talk was about how he discovered long lost texts by Archimedes buried inside a medieval palimpsest. What's amazing about this discovery is that the text shows Archimedes doing advanced Combinatorics and Calculus circa 200BC!
That Ignite video led us to a TED Tuesday also by William Noel! Now I think I have to show a documentary about the Antikythera Device! There's a nice NOVA about Ancient Computers and here's a related youtube.
By the way, I also throw in Calculus Filks at random intervals whenever we cover a related topic (some are by my own students):
Definition of Continuity
Definition of the Derivative
Position, Velocity, Acceleration
Product Rule
Quotient Rule
Chain Rule
AntiDerivatives
More AntiDerivatives
Some Physics
Some BC Calculus
Even Outer Space
Don't forget VI Hart!
January YouTube Wednesdays!
Now we turn our attention to Nova and Fractals:
December YouTube Wednesdays!
December 9th was Grace Hopper's birthday and the Hour Of Code! So, we revisited Grace Hopper and Ada Lovelace. We were also practicing preCalculus and Calculus Carols which are the best math filks ever.
Who was Ada?
Oh Calculus, Oh Calculus
November YouTube Wednesdays!
This month I covered Conic Sections and Planet Orbits in preCalculus class. So, Youtube Wednesday saw several Astronomers as Guest Speakers. We have several Guest Speakers and Documentaries though out the year.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Bill Nye
Phil Plait
Carl Sagan
October YouTube Wednesdays!
October is devoted to one of my all time inspirations: Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.
60 Minutes!
Letterman!
Biographer!
September YouTube Wednesdays!
I started the year with the definition of filk:
/filk/ n.,v. [from SF fandom, where a typo for `folk' was adopted as a new word] A popular or folk songwith lyrics revised or completely new lyrics and/or music, intended for humorous effect when read, and/orto be sung late at night at SF conventions. There is a flourishing subgenre of these called `computer filks',written by hackers and often containing rather sophisticated technical humor.
Then I proceeded to show some Math Filks! I always start with Mathematicious which is a review of Regents Math. Then I introduce Tom Lehrer!
Base 8 Arithmetic!
Periodic Table of Elements!
Research?
Well, that's all folks.
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RECOMMENDED AP COMPSCI REVIEW:
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(IDEs & Code)
MATH 4H, AP CALC, CSH: SAGECELL
MATH 4H, AP CALC, CSH: SAGECELL
APCSA: sandbox.cs50.io
(Curriculae)
CSH: CodeHS
CSH: Coding In Python
CSH: Interactive Python
APCSA: Big Java
APCSA: CSAwesome
APCSA: Nature Of Code
RECOMMENDED AP COMPSCI REVIEW:
CRIB SHEET (given during exam)
REVIEW BARRONS BOOK (see me)
REVIEW BARRONS ONLINE
REVIEW APCENTRAL (past FRQs)
REVIEW EDX REVIEW MOOC01
REVIEW BARRONS BOOK (see me)
REVIEW BARRONS ONLINE
REVIEW APCENTRAL (past FRQs)
REVIEW EDX REVIEW MOOC01
REVIEW UDEMY REVIEW MOOC02
REVIEW CODING_BAT
REVIEW PRACTICE_IT
REVIEW RUNESTONE
AUDIT CS50
REVIEW RUNESTONE
AUDIT CS50
RECOMMENDED AP CALCULUS REVIEW:
CRIB SHEET (not given during exam)
REVIEW BARRONS BOOK (see me)
REVIEW BARRONS ONLINE
REVIEW APCENTRAL (latest AB FRQs)
REVIEW APCENTRAL (latest BC FRQs)
REVIEW APCENTRAL (older AB FRQs)
REVIEW APCENTRAL (older BC FRQs)
REVIEW EDX MOOC01
REVIEW COURSERA MOOC02
XTRA CREDIT FILKS RUBRIC
(1 video = up to 5 bonus points):
1) Use a recognizable tune.
2) Karaoke entire song changing up the words (about STEAM).
3) You are Singing, Dancing or Playing an instrument.
4) You upload your video to YouTube and provide the url.
5) YouTube Description includes the lyrics.
XTRA CREDIT ARTICLES RUBRIC
(up to 5 articles = 1 bonus point each):
1) Cover Sheet is a Summary of the article.
2) FullPage, 12 pt, DoubleSpaced, 1" Margin.
3) Article has to be STEAM related
4) Article has to be a current event.
5) Copy of entire article is attached.
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