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I know, I know, students are fond of the alligator always chomping the greater number. Still, I wanted to feature Casey/Gravity 🙂  It behaved rather oddly — the greater than text layer switched to a mirror image of itself… then the dogs switched… I’ve observed with things visual or mechanical that my first attempts […]
May 26, 2017
Last night I chatted with a friend who’s a graphic designer specializing in educational materials. Â She loved programming but … math. Â She had said that when she sees a recipe and it calls for 1/3 or 2/3 … what??? I had been explaining to her the visual I need for my lessons: Â […]
March 16, 2017
Formulae are abstract. Â Substitution into a formula can be a meaningless machination. Â No longer, for the student who explained what we’d have to do to find the missing length knowing perimeter and side of a rectangle… double the width and subtract it from the perimeter. Â Well…. I showed him the substitution process and […]
March 3, 2017
29 degrees and not much wind at all … and I got out a little early. Â I could hear talk and laughter from one early-party group this “Unofficial Saint Patrick’s Day.” Imagining having funding. Imagining organizing (!yes, I think crazy thoughts on bike rides) the Urbana-Champaign node of OER innovations. Â The technology and its […]
February 7, 2017
It’s not too busy — I’ve gotten six more “Modumath” lesson skeletons moved into our LMS.  Checked the Lumen Learning job at LinkedIn — no surprises.  The surprise was that I’d gotten around to putting something in my profile, to wit: I’m an “academic development specialist” at Parkland College. I support students in “pre-college […]
February 6, 2017
I was helping a guy with the Connect lesson where they’re learning about figuring out scaled models. Â They like to throw in “real world stuff that twists things” — so they talk about where “3/4” scale actually means 3/4 inches stands for one foot. Â It’s a pretty neat exploration. Still, lots of them […]
February 1, 2017
http://hechingerreport.org/colleges-enroll-students-arent-prepared-higher-education/ This one’s seriously behind the times. Â Oh, MY!!!!! Â So many unprepared students!!!! (Statistics provided). The wretched part is in the comments which I suspect represent our cultural shift, though I can hope/wish that it’s a reflection of this specific audience. Â There’s no questioning the value of an educational system that spews […]
June 9, 2017
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