AAPT: American Association of Physics Teachers

Meet AdeBanjo

My getting into physics, I imagine, is like winning a lottery. Joseph Oriade, my father, was the physics teacher who made me fall in love with doing, learning, and teaching physics. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and he was teaching at the University of Jos, Nigeria. As a student and later as a teacher in Nigeria, much of my physics adventures were abstract and done primarily with pen and paper. My work now, teaching physics with a spectrum of tools, blending experimental, computational, and theoretical experiences, is a more incredible adventure. An example is the use of video analysis tools such that matching points aid learning on a graph with frames in the video.