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Oh, boy oh boy, another article about how we Just Shouldn’t Place Anybody In Developmental Math. “Maximizing Math Throughput of Students Who Did Not Complete Algebra 2 in High School.” Wow, that was the title? There was lots of analysis but if this were an essay, then I’d expect there to be oh, perhaps more […]
June 28, 2021
Yea, that’s what I’m having now wiht our “math literacy.” And I know their argument. Hey!!! It’s LIKE THAT IN THE REAL WORLD. My argument is the same: we want them to LEARN this so that they can deal with the confusing aspects in the real world. To wit: ALEKS has a series of problems […]
March 17, 2021
I remembered a while ago that when I was growing up and *in school,* and in major colleges/ universities, I learned to expect poor management and decisions that just didn’t work in real life that everybody in real life would have to figure out how to work around. My home county was laughably incompetent even […]
December 1, 2020
So, the Nuns on the Bus have a little pre-election video saying that if somebody’s supporting policies we don’t agree with, we should address the harm caused rather than rail and spew vitriol. I”m helping a student withdraw from a course. To withdraw, you have to contact the teacher and send them a form to […]
March 2, 2019
Signed contract received yesterday (dated yesterday). SO things could really actually get interesting soon 🙂 In the meantime … times tables! And hte usual Saturday reading. From our Developmental Ed Council meeting, which was about the law being proposed to basically eliminate developmental education and put everybody into college level courses “with support.” I didn’t […]
December 15, 2018
Goal for this break: to figure out a conscious system for working on the assorted projects. I have been sometimes actually successful at letting others take care of students for an hour or two. Today’s task is to look through our Cobra Math course and plan out a four week version of a “class.” In […]
September 9, 2018
I just finished a four-week course with LINCS (adult ed community): Universal Design for Learning –math. I’d thought that the biggest best thing is the book on UDL — but I was only on page 21 of it. The videos and stories of folks “in the trenches” are informative and inspiring. I like the design […]
August 21, 2018
Quality matters, peeps. So there’s an exercise taking survey data and filling in a chart w/ percent and number of degrees on the little circle. 3/26 students had some opinion about math. THis translates into 0.115384615… or 11.5%. Students are to round to the nearest tenth of a percent, and to the nearest whole degree. […]
June 19, 2018
http://nrocnetwork.org/resources/events/2018/06/reflecting-on-a-decade-of-oer-evaluating-efficacy-beyond-cost-savings/ So! I couldn’t attend this b/c I was roaming around on the Grand Illinois Bicycle Tour (sigh, the replacement for drowned phone should arrive tonight). Ahrash Bissell is the moderator, from NROC and he’s talking to Dr. Lisa Petrides who founded ISKME which runs oercommons.org and Dr. David Wiley of Lumen Learning . NROC folks […]
December 3, 2017
Wow. Just… wow. It seems that asking a question without a screenshot is a mortal sin. I asked what “BP” stood for — thinking, (forgive me!!! mea culpa and I mean that, to a degree)… that BP was a common heading to the spreadsheet thing about each element in your app. I […]
September 18, 2021
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