Jimmy Newland
@jimmynewland.bsky.social
Academic and STEM educator working at TACC at UT Austin. PhD in physics education using computer science pedagogy from University of Houston. https://jimmynewland.com
I’m a big fan of Desmos. Yesterday I taught BigO notation to teachers practicing for the CS Praxis certification exam. www.desmos.com/calculator/h... #csed
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I’m a big fan of Desmos. Yesterday I taught BigO notation to teachers practicing for the CS Praxis certification exam. www.desmos.com/calculator/h... #csed
On Tuesday at the WeTeach_CS Summit, Dr. Stella Offner will share with CS educators how CS and AI can lead to new science. Below are animations from the STARFORGE showing a simulation of star formation (Guszejnov et al. 2021, Grudic et al. 2021).
June 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
On Tuesday at the WeTeach_CS Summit, Dr. Stella Offner will share with CS educators how CS and AI can lead to new science. Below are animations from the STARFORGE showing a simulation of star formation (Guszejnov et al. 2021, Grudic et al. 2021).
I’m about to hit the road for the first ever Data Science Education K-12 conference which is happening in San Antonio. I’m presenting my recent work bringing data science pedagogy to high school science. #dsek12 #dataIsHuman www.jimmynewland.com/wp/research/...
February 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I’m about to hit the road for the first ever Data Science Education K-12 conference which is happening in San Antonio. I’m presenting my recent work bringing data science pedagogy to high school science. #dsek12 #dataIsHuman www.jimmynewland.com/wp/research/...
My first official tour of the TACC supercomputers from the wonderful Geoffrey Reid
February 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
My first official tour of the TACC supercomputers from the wonderful Geoffrey Reid
The Riverwalk in San Antonio Texas has this cool spot where you can see wavefronts propagating
February 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The Riverwalk in San Antonio Texas has this cool spot where you can see wavefronts propagating
Frozen Houston work from home vibes
January 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Frozen Houston work from home vibes
Never look a gift dinosaur in the mouth
January 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Never look a gift dinosaur in the mouth
My curtain has a hole that makes an adequate pinhole camera. Here are some just-out-of-focus images of a clouded over sun
December 16, 2024 at 2:54 PM
My curtain has a hole that makes an adequate pinhole camera. Here are some just-out-of-focus images of a clouded over sun
Getting to tag along with astronomy teachers as they pilot a spectrograph for the classroom designed by Dr. Hanshin Lee from UT Austin Astronomy.
December 15, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Getting to tag along with astronomy teachers as they pilot a spectrograph for the classroom designed by Dr. Hanshin Lee from UT Austin Astronomy.
Tried a new hiking trail today at Cullinan Park
November 30, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Tried a new hiking trail today at Cullinan Park
I left the classroom after 28 years to do teacher training and education research for TACC but I am mostly a remote worker. Today the team I’m on is meeting at the UT admissions office in Houston which is in this lovely old building near downtown. Check out this structure above my work area. So cool
November 25, 2024 at 3:37 PM
I left the classroom after 28 years to do teacher training and education research for TACC but I am mostly a remote worker. Today the team I’m on is meeting at the UT admissions office in Houston which is in this lovely old building near downtown. Check out this structure above my work area. So cool
The STEMcoding physics modeling platform uses these green check marks when the code models the physical system following a given set of checks. The kids loved seeing the green check marks and it acted as a helpful formative method for me.
November 25, 2024 at 2:43 PM
The STEMcoding physics modeling platform uses these green check marks when the code models the physical system following a given set of checks. The kids loved seeing the green check marks and it acted as a helpful formative method for me.
Being in higher education after working as a high school
Teacher for so long has been a strange transition. I’m at the Texas state science teachers conference in a different capacity this year. I am excited to talk about my new data science work for TACC at UT Austin though.
Teacher for so long has been a strange transition. I’m at the Texas state science teachers conference in a different capacity this year. I am excited to talk about my new data science work for TACC at UT Austin though.
November 14, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Being in higher education after working as a high school
Teacher for so long has been a strange transition. I’m at the Texas state science teachers conference in a different capacity this year. I am excited to talk about my new data science work for TACC at UT Austin though.
Teacher for so long has been a strange transition. I’m at the Texas state science teachers conference in a different capacity this year. I am excited to talk about my new data science work for TACC at UT Austin though.
