Hey Tom,

Since you're at the front line of physics education, what is your opinion on the
various new and "hip" teaching methods to improve the teaching of intro physics
lessons? Several institutions, including MIT, seem to be trying a lot of new
stuff, some of them involving high-tech setups.

Here are a few references:

http://caes.mit.edu/projects/teal/index.html
http://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/PhysicsNewsLetter.pdf
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/phys/research/educ_physics.html
http://www.physics.ncsu.edu/physics_ed/scaleup.html
http://scaleup.ncsu.edu/

Zz.