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So! IN between applying for a job to help enhance and create math courses… I’m trying to … build a math course! For our folks who need to prep for the test … or already took the test and need to learn stuff… We’ve got Modumath, but its online presence is — well, […]
January 31, 2017
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/31/textbook-publishers-contemplate-inclusive-access-business-model-future That’s the link to an article about the latest trend in textbooks: “day-one access.” Instead of buying a book at the bookstore, you pay a price and bam! you can download on the first day of class. At first they tried selling the stuff at 2/3 original price, then went down to […]
January 29, 2017
Sometimes students resist tackling new content because we’re just making things more complicated than they think necessary. Why should we say 11 + -8 instead of 11 – 8? If Ferocious Football Player 1 gains 11 yards, and then LessFerocious Player lost 8… did we *take away* 8 yards from the first guy? No. […]
January 28, 2017
I’ve ridden a little and am hanging at my own house. I got 3 quizzes added to the Canvas Course… and peeked at the 5 lessons I’ve got on Creative Commons and my slide show on OER. Wondering why I’m “provider” not author for some…but not the time to pursue that. The connecting cable for […]
January 28, 2017
Saturday… at desk, cruising my WordPress Reader (RSS) for the sites I’ve picked to follow. TechCrunch dominates. https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/27/leapfrogging-in-higher-ed/ takes me to an article about “leapfrogging,” defined as ” pioneering the application of new technologies to bypass the older framework in place” and how this can be applied to higher ed. It maintains that a […]
January 27, 2017
I’m at a webinar with Kate Novak about UDL and it seems that UDL is no longer about “accommodating for disabilities.” It’s about getting students to own their learning with lots of options which accommodate all kinds of learners. Yay! … it’s also got phrases better than “extreme passivity” for describing student behavior… […]
January 27, 2017
Our tech support person came down to see what they were going to have to do to recover the files from my computer which apparently had more wrong with it than just a dead power source. They got all kinds of happy when I told them that — unbeknownst to myself — I had managed […]
January 26, 2017
Seems Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will be … nonstop or close. By 8:20 I had four students in working… 3 more came in for a little of this and that. Then a CCS teacher came in and we worked on stuff for Readign Plus. NOte to self: enroll multiple ‘example’ students in each […]
January 25, 2017
LOL the two minutes ’til end of work day and I DROVE THE CAR THING so I can’t even think about it well on the way home. Here’s my next magic grant request. Hey. I really should figure it out and at least plop it on a few other blogs. So I’m doing […]
January 24, 2017
… or not. This is, in my humble opinion, like … sugar. If it’s used wrong, all kinds of horrible things can happen. (Or… maybe… curse words or criticism.) Ceasing timed tests does not change the rest of the cultural forces that “ruin math” for kids. I saw a post where kids […]
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January 31, 2017
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