Two years teaching CS, static diagrams only go so far. Students follow along but don't retain it.
What's actually worked in your classroom? What are you using ?
photosynthesis has like 3 diagrams in every textbook and somehow none of them explain what's actually happening between the stages.
so i animated it to an explainer.
light reactions, Calvin cycle, what's moving between them and why both stages need each other — step by step.
full video: youtube link
let me know what i should animate next
ok so i finally get Dijkstra's and it's because i drew the priority queue
spent weeks thinking i understood it. did not. every explanation shows you the final shortest-path tree and skips the part where the queue is actively repricing edges mid-run, which is kind of the whole algorithm??
animated it step by step below. hope it helps someone before finals.
here is the full video