It’s possible McKee and Sligh did not have the teaching plan worked out. That makes for another week’s worth of comic strips to discuss. All of my Reading the Comics posts should be at this link. Thanks for reading this and I will let you know if Comic Strip Master Command increases...
Later, he built his first “teaching machine”, which let children tackle questions at their own pace. Since then, education technology (edtech) has repeated the cycle of hype and flop (炒作和失败), even as computers have reshaped almost every other part of life.Softwares to “personalize”...
Twin Primes Conjecture Thanks to a great post on the Teaching Mathematics blog about getting students to conduct an open ended investigation on consecutive numbers, I tried this with my year 10s - with some really interesting results. My favourites were these conjectures: 1) In a set of any ...
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Lisp, the programming language used in SICP, is particularly well-suited for teaching fundamental computer science concepts such as recursion, abstraction, and higher-order functions. Lisp's minimal syntax, powerful list manipulation facilities, and support for recursion, abstraction, and higher-order ...
4. Teaching Math for a Growth Mindset.This session will give strategies to teachers and parents for helping students develop a growth mindset and will include an interview with Carol Dweck. 5. Conceptual Learning. Part I. Number Sense.Math is a conceptual subject– we will see evidence of the...
“little bit unstructured”. He was concerned that the amount of time spent reaching a consensus about the day’s lesson was eating into time spent actually teaching. But even in an environment so radically different from Singapore’s tightly scripted classrooms, he found a useful insight. “I...