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… and reading my Twitter feed. From Andrew Gael: https://thelearningkaleidoscope.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/students-with-disabilities-can-do-math-shareable.pdf “Students with disabilities can do math.” Amen ! HOwever, we also know that they don’t do so well in a lot of real classroom & life situations, where teachers don’t have the resources and/or training (and/or expectations) to facilitate developing those concepts — and […]
November 30, 2016
So I’m getting all these “#givingTuesday” things and my thought is, “oh, you’ll get lots of donations from people who go for that stuff! You don’t need mine!” IT does make me ponder just how much pull there is to hashtags, etc, by normal people. Can we use it to pull people into learning?
November 29, 2016
Going to try to get a bunch of quizzes done to make a “mastery path.” Since I’m learning both things, I’m confident I’ll need a total do-over anyway… … oh, REMEMBER: Make quizzes *in a bank* not a quiz if you want to re-use them! Otherwise you have to export the whole […]
November 26, 2016
🙂 A few minutes here and there mucking about with Canvas… for the LAST WEEK of the class. 11 hour drive …I like the Nissan Versa NOte. Small, and the features I want without the weird ones. Well, okay, I’d have liked an “Auto” for the headlights (and stick shift). Good space […]
November 22, 2016
Yes, distracted by the twittersphere again… a new person I’m following posted a neat little poster listing six strategies for tutoring / studying. What? The secrets, revealed??? With videos at http://www.learningscientists.org/videos ?? !. Use concrete examples to understand abstract ideas (“concrete examples”) 2. Combine words & visuals (“dual coding”) 3. Explain & describe […]
November 18, 2016
https://twitter.com/doctorwhy tweeted a poster about studying questions … ten blocks of ten questions, ranked from easy to hard. If people started w/ the hard questions, all the questions were deemed hard. If they started w/ the easy ones, the students rated the questions as … gradually getting harder. Hmmm… more evidence of the advantages […]
November 18, 2016
https://mathontheedge.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/one-what/ Sigh, I *need* to be working on the Canvas project. (I need to find my *&* wallet.) Still, watching these videos of students thinking and processing is so affirming. HEre’s you’re PhD project, people: interview (or hypnotize) students who score poorly on these college math assessment tests. Find out just how many […]
November 18, 2016
For some reason this was my ‘food for thought’ on the ride home yesterday. Rounding is in that category of skills that is “really important for real life situations” — which students memorize convoluted rituals for getting right on their math homework. Things like “Find your number, move next door, Four or less, just ignore, […]
November 17, 2016
So our board of trustees voted overwhelmingly to cut a bunch of full time faculty from Parkland. It’s the only time that’s happened in the college’s 50 years of existence. The state has done its nastiness with not having a budget so tough calls have to be made but… I find no evidence of attempts […]
November 16, 2016
… so when you’re in the early, early stages and nothing’s automatic… you go back to something you started — not realizing that when you started, you didn’t know better than to call a quiz a “survey” because that means none of the questions have “right” or “wrong” answers. I figured I should just start […]
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November 30, 2016
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