David M. Harrison Senior Lecturer Department of Physics University of Toronto Computer assisted instruction Cognitive issues in Physics education Foundations of Physics Telephone: (416)-978-2977 e-mail: david.harrison@utoronto.ca

Brief CV

Ph.D., Physics, University of Toronto (1972)
B.Sc., Physics, American University (1967)

Dean's Excellence Award (2008)
Dean's Small Group Award (2008)
Dean's Excellence Award (2004)
Dean's Excellence Award (2002)
Dean's Excellence Award (1992)
Dean's Excellence Award (1991)
Ontario Conferederation of University Faculty Associations Award for Outstanding Contributions to University Teaching (1976)

Teaching 2008-2009

• PHY201H1F - Concepts of Physics.
• PHY132H1S - Introduction to Physics II

Some Recent Web Documents

• Introduction to Physics Education Research (2010), html, 24k
• University of Toronto Physics Practicals (2009), Flash
• What’s all the clicking about? A study of Classroom Response (2008) pdf, 1.5M
• Serial Team-Teaching and the Evolving Scholarship of Learning:(2007) pdf, 240k
• Team Teaching: A survey of 50 courses in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto with more than one instructor (2006) pdf, 330k
• "Quarks, Bootstraps and Monads" (2006) pdf, 250k
• "Tutorial Attendance and Student Performance" (2006) pdf, 24k
• "Life, Emerging Structures and the Second Law of Thermodynamics" (2006) html, 300k
• "Blackboards, PowerPoint and Tablet PCs" (2005) pdf, 390k.
• "A Demonstration of Reading on a Computer Screen" (2004) html, 18k
• "Least Squares Fitting of Data in the Physical Sciences" (2004) html, 132k
• "Results on the Force Concept Inventory by Adult Learners" (2004): html pdf
• "An Simple Analogy to Bell's Theorem" (2003): html pdf
• "Physics Flash Demonstrations" (2003) html, 12k.
• "How Does the Delivery of Information Help Students to Learn?" (2002) pdf, 63k
• "Learning About UNIX-GNU/Linux" (2002) html
• "Quantum Teleportation" (2001) html, 41k
• "Error Analysis in Experimental Physical Science" (2001), html

Some "Minor" Documents

• A U of T Magazine article on my Flash animations
• A newspaper article on clickers
• PHY110Y/PHY138Y 2005 Lab Evaluation
• PHY110Y/PHY138Y 2004 Lab Evaluation
• Relating students' high school background to their 1st Year Physics performance
• A newpaper article on teaching in Convocation Hall
• PHY110Y/PHY138Y 2003 Lab Evaluation
• PHY110Y/PHY138Y 2002 Lab Evaluation
• PHY110Y/PHY138Y 2001 Lab Evaluation
• What Browser Do Undergraduates Use?
• Results of an Assignment for First Year Students to Measure the Height of the Physics Tower

Some Journal Publications

• "The Physical Pendulum in an Advanced Undergraduate Course in Mechanics", S.C. Douglas, D.M. Harrison and T.G. Shepherd, Computers in Physics 8, 416 (1995). A pdf version is available here.
• ``Computerized pre-checking of laboratory data'', D. Harrison and J.M. Pitre, The Physics Teacher 26, 156 (1988).
• ``Computers in a teaching laboratory: just another piece of apparatus'', D. Harrison and J.M. Pitre, Computers and Education 12, 261 (1988).
• ``Computerized lab test on error analysis'', D. Harrison and J.M. Pitre, The Physics Teacher 21, 588-589 (1983).
• ``Discovering induction'', D. Harrison, Amer. J. Physics 49, 603 (1981).
• `Entropy and the number of sentient beings in the universe'', D. Harrison, Spec. in Sci. and Tech. 5, 43-48 (1982).
• ``Bell's inequality and quantum correlations'', D. Harrison, Amer. J. Phys. 50, 811-816 (1982).

The "Dancing Monkey" Series

Here is the "Dancing Monkey" series featuring Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft®. I recommend looking at these in order:

• 578.mpeg (3.0 Meg)
• developers.mpg (1.6 Meg)
• MonkeyShow.mov (5.8 Meg)

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