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Goal: Non-tangential Blog Titles 🙂 Three Misunderstandings about Open Educational Resources — HOoray for not calling them “myths” 🙂 First — that the main benefit it saving money. Okay, sorry guys but this quote is laughable: “In reality, every district we know approaches open educational resources with a single goal: to accelerate student learning […]
September 28, 2017
So I visited Canvas b/c hey, I could get a new badge about “rogues” and — they actually, at their conference, had a lively discussion of users who aren’t employees or anything, but just contribute a lot and answer a lot of questions. (Some had fewer user points than I do, but … asking […]
September 28, 2017
Student comes in who needs to work on homework. In the old days, they could have gotten out the stuff and done it. Since student can’t remember password and doesn’t have phone to have it send him a code, so there’s nothing to be done. Student goes home. Sigh, and *now* I remember that hey, […]
September 26, 2017
A good one! It was not about the magnificent shiny tools… it was about getting a team together and using the tools and involving the students in the process. First — yes, in the two years they’ve been doing it, math “MAP” scores (I infer a standardized assessment of your skills) have gone […]
September 25, 2017
Noted on Twitter that Eureka Math tweeted that parents might need support and replied about my Friday experience (thinking they might have read it since I tagged it). I hope they hire somebody to engage the parents who maybe aren’t in New York in those support materials. I’m even wondering whether one of the […]
September 23, 2017
A person interested in prepping for the assessment came in… and the “I can’t help my kids do their homework!” comment happened. “They don’t have a text! HOw are we supposed to help them?” They would just go on the INternet and “Google the answers, but that’s not very good,” (and yes, usually […]
September 22, 2017
I was in full “beat head against wall” with adding integers with a student. ALEKS showed the problem 14.151 + (-27.345) or something like that. Its first “explanation” step said to do this: 27.345 – 14.151 My student wanted to know why the signs had changed. I’m reasonably positive that the idea that […]
September 22, 2017
Yesterday I hung out at an online presentation about the “Mathematics of Empathy,” which described the potential for mathematics instruction to include more attention to the humans in the world (as in, all of ’em), and attention to ways which we (usually unintentionally) stifle learners, and the role that varying degrees of trauma play […]
September 21, 2017
So… exponents and variables and … zero power. It’s a “touch base on this” section in pre-Algebra, nothing huge or convoluted (and I don’t *think* negative powers). It just might stick. Things squared? Write it out as this times itself until you don’t have to. Zero power? write it out as base/base […]
September 19, 2017
The amount of help I gave a student just now… it’s not scalable, except when it is. Getting somebody through something complicated for the first time *can* mean they’re still dependent, etc., but it can also mean that they start expecting success. And when it’s the third or fourth time — yes, they’re taking […]
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September 29, 2017
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