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http://www.futureofeducation.com/ Dan Willingham and Doug Lemov being interviewed, discussing the role of failure. Lemov’s book is “Practice Perfect” and he says that practicing failure makes us better at failing… which is what I’ve claimed happens all the time in math, unfortunately for an awful lot of students who manage to get passing *grades.* They’re […]
May 28, 2013
I wanted to know what that whole “empathy” part of the design process was about (was it about empathizing with the folks you were trying to design for? With folks you wanted to convince to help you design things for the people you wanted to design for?) and found this line on http://knight.stanford.edu/work-fellow/2012/the-draw-of-stanfords-design-school/ “The empathy step […]
May 22, 2013
It’s day three of the “three week crash course” summer session and … two students from Diet and Nutrition 120 (or something like that) have found me. They’ve passed the math course pre-requisite … but the connection between 1/3 and dividing by three is. not. obvious. There is a similar gap […]
May 21, 2013
Whereas, I need to go back and figure out how to make JavaScript do as I wish, I figured I’d try another online teaching venue, to wit: LearnStreet. Can’t say I approve of the pedagogy — an awful lot of the lessons seem to tell me to do something(without instruction), and let me click on […]
May 20, 2013
… so I’m trying to use Aptana to figure out this JavaScript stuff. First thing that becomes obvious is that you don’t ever, ever want to shut your computer down or close the program. It takes several minutes to open up, during which the whole system is bogged bogged bogged (yes, the computer at […]
May 17, 2013
… that’s me, at the bit… still a couple students here, really focused on finishing papers, so recording a math lesson isn’t an option. On the lunch laps, I contrived “houses” for the Aunt James’ Academy. The one would be the “home for battered algebra students” where “math shouldn’t hurt,” and will include stuff […]
May 16, 2013
I went back (while working up my d.fellowship application) and reviewed how the Common Core suggests presenting fractions. Instead straight out “this much of the pie,” it proposes starting with “units” so that students are counting complete things since, after all, that’s what their brains are going to do with it. So, 3/5 is […]
May 15, 2013
Note to self: The LiveScribe pen is probably a really good venue for lessons I want to eventually make online. It would have come in handy this a.m. A co-worker’s daughter had been in tears the night before, working through problems with factors and multiples. You see, contrary to […]
May 14, 2013
Just sat in on a webinar on “gamifying” education. The games are “like assignments, only more granular.” Okay, I totally love the fundamental idea of ‘non-reductive evaluations’ – keeping track of the progress you’re making, not just “here’s what you got wrong.” And I also appreciate the idea that with a game, “failure” just […]
May 14, 2013
Second day of finals here… my application to Stanford’s d.fellowship was in with hours to spare, so it’s time to get back to evaluating lessons and making my own. The math literacy folks are figuring out how to convince the teacher that their situation is a “quadratic equation” and I’m lookin’ for the tea bags […]
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May 28, 2013
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