an Intermediate Level Lesson Plan This is a 1 1/2 hour lesson on making small talk. It asks students to think about the purpose of small talk and appropriate topics for casual conversation. Then they practice speaking briefly on various topics with a board game....
This talk introduces some ideas around treating the freeform program an a (programmer's) user interface to the running (distributed) program, especially its state. basically extending lisp repl semantics with more structure, control over immediacy, and over the entire running system (as opposed to...
Limit talk.Limit interruptions to those which enhance understanding, such as reflecting back or asking clarifying questions. Don’t jump in to make a point before you have fully understood the other person’s point. Reflect back. If you want to make sure that you understand a particular point,...
Nate was in the stern, sailing the Whitehall, when my daughter Alison called to wish me a happy Father’s Day. When I handed my phone to him so he could talk with his sister, he took the phone in one hand and with the other slipped the spinnaker sheets between the toes of his righ...
On the second day, students brought their QTS catalyst, readings, and the provided scientific model/claims to their QTS discussions to talk about the scientific model and related scientific phenomenon. On the third day of the science lesson after students conducted a QTS discussion, the teacher ...
It was always great to talk to Ken on a panel or podcast. He was one of those folks who just always seemed to have a smile on his face. Our industry is a better place because he shared his wisdom and passion with. You've heard the old saying, "Give a man a fish, you feed him...
Being wrong feelsexactlylike being right. This question and this insight come from Kathryn Schulz’s TED Talk,On being wrong. Schulz talks about the “internal sense of rightness†we feel, and the problems that result. I think there’s a puzzle here: we’ve...
Book Club has always been about helping students read and talk about great books. In 2020, many teachers faced the daunting task of transitioning to online teaching when classroom instruction suddenly moved from the school setting to web apps. Book ClubOnlineNovel Guides are designed to support te...
I had to link this good talk advice for the hilarious nostalgia it created for the overhead strip tease (advice: don’t do it, and I think this also applies to powerpoint reveals). From the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Teaching Center (many useful pdfs here ...
I’m so torn up inside I can hardly talk about it, even now. One year later, in a subsequent interview, he explained how close he could have been to stopping the launch, if he could have been more convincing: We were talking to the people who had the power to stop that launch. ...