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My Bookmarks Via Diigo 05/13/2009
It's Elementary #33, Interactive Whiteboards | EdTechTalk
Good discussion on the use of interactive whiteboards.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Putting The Laugh Back In Maugh
For the past couple of days I have had one student who comes into Math class prepared to tell me a joke. I put her on the spot, have her tell it to the whole class, and although I have done this several times now, she still acts surprised every time I do it. Inspired, I gave the kids homework, find a math joke and bring it to class. Here's what happened...
I was almost wanting to post this up as an Idea for Interactive Whiteboards, much like my Ideas for Flips, but Lisa Parisi already mentioned using interactive whiteboards as backgrounds during performances. And then I got to thinking about it more, maybe what is really special here is simply putting fun and humor in math class.
So here's the problem? If I try to make this some sort of routine, say Fridays everyone brings a math joke to share, will it kill the positive effects that might result from an off-shoot like this?
What happened today in class was essentially a grassroots type of thing. But if I institutionalize it, am I ruining the very thing that made it special?
...cause I'd really love to devote 20 minutes, one day of the week, to do this...
I was almost wanting to post this up as an Idea for Interactive Whiteboards, much like my Ideas for Flips, but Lisa Parisi already mentioned using interactive whiteboards as backgrounds during performances. And then I got to thinking about it more, maybe what is really special here is simply putting fun and humor in math class.
So here's the problem? If I try to make this some sort of routine, say Fridays everyone brings a math joke to share, will it kill the positive effects that might result from an off-shoot like this?
What happened today in class was essentially a grassroots type of thing. But if I institutionalize it, am I ruining the very thing that made it special?
...cause I'd really love to devote 20 minutes, one day of the week, to do this...
But Is Money The Cause or the Cure?
I am now reading "Disrupting Class" by Clayton Christensen, Michael Horn, and Curtis Johnson. Much in the vain of Scott McLeod, I will be posting up snippits here and there.
But is money the cause or the cure? The U.S. public education systemMoney is not the problem, it might not even be teaching, but more on that later.
spends more per students than all but a few countries, and yet, on average, its
students often perform at or below the level of tho0se in other economically
advanced countries. Over the past three decades, real spending per
students has doubled without a commensurate gain in achievement.[p. 2,
Disrupting Class]
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