David Borland M.Ed. 🦄

Thank you for sharing, I’ve passed it on to him

Thank you so much for this, I have passed it on to him

Hello everyone!

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Ah yes, I forget hashtags exist sometimes. Thank you!

My friend is teaching IB physics for the first time this year and doesn’t use twitter, is there anyone on here willing to share their experience and/or resources with him?

Presumably there is a cost involved in continuously re advertising, but surely there is some way to match teachers needing a job with a school. It seems like it’s increasingly difficult to get a job in a council you don’t already work in

Hi, I know this is an older article (I’m trying not to use social media much) but I couldn’t comment on the article itself. How much of this do you feel is down to the way we advertise posts? I know physics teachers who are unemployed in remote areas who would apply for jobs if they were advertised

Presumably a money maker for the powers that be, but it’s clearly horrible for attention spans as well as user experience

I really enjoyed this one 😊

Interesting new study on LLM use in an educational setting:

"...the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels:
neural, linguistic, scoring."

🍎 🎢 🧪 #AcademicSky

Had a great time listening to Chris Hadfield this evening. Always great to learn about space 🚀🔭🛰️#iTeachPhysics

Refraction is cool

Hi Drew, welcome! It’s the closest thing I can find to the old version of the bird app but I’ve found engagement to be tricky at times due to the smaller number of people on here

Not exaggerating, this might be the greatest demo I’ve ever seen. Definitely trying this tomorrow!

And you’ve now hit the crux of the issue.
Essentially a government elected on increasing teacher numbers and local authorities/schools who are so cash strapped that they can’t afford to hire them.
I’m not sure if the targets are to maintain numbers of increase them, but I would guess the latter

I do often find the dichotomy between science teacher recruitment in Scotland vs the rest of the UK. I would imagine a large number of the numbers above will move south of the border as there are limited numbers of permanent posts here, despite the recruitment targets

ScotGov Teacher Intake Figures 2025:

Physics: Target 131, Actual 42
Chemistry: Target 159, Actual 54
Biology: Target 163, Actual 88
Maths: Target 250, actual 75(!)

These are worrying figures caused (imo) by a lack of permanent jobs post probation. Something must be done soon

How many reasons do people need to stop using this stuff?

This is obviously based from a Scottish perspective, but it’s particularly relevant for teachers/assessors/markers for any course which has a coursework element. Generating results from an experiment that never happened is rather scary

I tried to get it to produce a full higher and advanced higher physics assignment by feeding it the course specification. By my marking, it got over 50% from a basic prompt and close to 100% with some fine tuning. Caveat: I’m not an official marker for such assignments

I’ve been playing around with Google Gemini’s deep research functionality and it does a pretty good job at generating experimental results for common experiments. Has anyone come across kids trying to use this? #sciteachuk #iteachphysics

This is obviously based from a Scottish perspective, but it’s particularly relevant for teachers/assessors/markers for any course which has a coursework element. Generating results from an experiment that never happened is rather scary

As others have mentioned, hanging systems are great. I spoke nicely to our technical department and had a brilliant solution within a week

Even reading about this makes me start to stress 😅

I’ve never seen one of these before but I’m definitely going to try build one

Yeah this has been my experience, it’s a shame

Thank you - I’ve been trying to check #iteachphysics but it hasn’t been as popular as I’d hoped.

I’m looking to see more posts from UK- based physics/science teachers, do any #edusky experts know how I can find them?

Not a biologist but this looks like a great eyesight demo! What do you put in the flask?

Are you a US scientist thinking of quitting the States for Europe? Would you be willing to talk about it — anonymity is possible? Send me a DM.

(Please reskeet if you have US contacts!)