Matthew Blackman
Integrated Pedagogy, Design & Technology Specialist
Morristown, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Blackman is an award-winning physics educator and edtech founder who blends over a decade of classroom and graduate-level teaching with product-focused design in educational simulations. As CEO of Universe & More and an Integrated Pedagogy, Design & Technology Specialist at PhET Interactive Simulations, he designs research-based, constructivist learning experiences that embed scaffolding, feedback, and content objectives into games and apps. A 2019 National Physics Teacher of the Year, he also trains future teachers at Rutgers and holds dual master's credentials in Physics Education and Learning, Cognition & Development. Known for turning complex pedagogical research into engaging digital tools, he brings both entrepreneurial drive and classroom-tested practicality to curriculum innovation.
8 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Physics Education, Master's degree, Physics Education at Rutgers Graduate School of EducationBachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Rutgers University
Github Skills (6)
html9
simulation9
simulations6
scene-graph2
puzzle1
user-interface1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
UniverseAndMore/DNA_animation
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
UniverseAndMore/Motion-Mapper
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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