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Regroup!

March 23, 2012

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I did my powerpoint for my presentation… narrated it. Okay, I narrated it twice, since the first time through I forgot to plug the headphones in. I then went upstairs to dive into my animation project. Then downstairs to re-record and listen… and know that yea, I really have to do lots of it again…… [Read more…]

Now Socrates is Smiling?!?

November 11, 2011

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So am I. “She told us not to do the ones with the semicircles because she hasn’t talked about it yet…. but… maybe we could just learn it?” (Okay, I could just end right here. No kidding, that’s what she said.) “Okay, why can’t you just do this the same way as the whole circles?”… [Read more…]

that mysterious “resistance” to learning

October 24, 2011

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I have often wondered why you can tell a student something and … they just don’t do it. I hypothesized at some point that one reason is that if what you’re telling them creates cognitive dissonance, andyou don’t resolve it, they fight it. So, student has just been told by our student worker that yes,… [Read more…]

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