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Fight the acedia!

October 26, 2020

One of my math tweeople shared this historical gem about “acedia” — a certain flavor of anxious listlessness. From it: Evagrius of Pontus included acedia among the eight trains of thought that needed to be overcome by devout Christians. Among these, acedia was considered the most insidious. It attacked only after monks had conquered the sins of […]

Holiday :)

September 7, 2020

Yes, I’m sitting at my window at the computer anyway. I’m thinking about the gfletchy videos I saw yesterday about the learning of the math facts. (I’m not finding it today — Twitter doesn’t lend itself to that.) The concept of “doubling” is introduced with pink and yellow lemonade. It’s a simple, vivid visual. That […]

A few slides about “why I think we need to do this.”

August 26, 2018

Okay, I thought I was done and then imagined sharing this with real people and had to add one more slide… but now This Link will get you to a slew of quotes and notes that I think provide evidence of the need for cognitively accessible math. So… time for the “next steps” — which […]

OER at FSI

May 17, 2018

The Thursday morning “coffee, muffins and listen” at the Faculty Summer Institute is about Open Educational Resources. This guy is from Libretexts and is going over the basics 🙂 This guy is still mainly about text as the mode for learning but it’s interesting to hear the perspective from the upper end of higher […]