Back in 2010, I wrote an blogpost comparing teaching with PBL to doing yoga. Since I have been doing Bikram Yoga for almost a year now and still can’t do “standing head to knee pose” *at all* – I thought I would repost this one just to give myself some perspective, and possibly many of […]
Sometimes my ignorance with respect to Twitter just floors me. Today alone I made two huge faux pas (is that plural?) with two people that I really respect and just made a fool out of myself – typos, misinterpretations, and misunderstandings abound in my tweets. But I have to say I press on – because […]
Instead of passing out photocopies, I tried to think of a way that participants could access the “hand-outs” virtually while attending a session. What I’ve done in the past a conferences is have them just access them on their tablet devices. You can also go and access copies on the Conference Server if you do […]
On an assessment students did for me today I gave this question: An aging father left a triangular plot of land to his two children. When the children saw how the land was to be divided in two parts (Triangle ADC and Triangle BDC), one child felt that the division of the land was not fair, […]
Yes, it is this time of year where I have to stop and wonder – what the heck am I doing wrong? Is it me? Is it the kids? Is it the combination of us? In the spring, many of the kids are breezing through and finding ways to problem solve and have gotten really […]
It doesn’t always work this way, but it would be awesome if it did. When PBL is perfect or ideal, the students are the ones who make the natural connections or at least see the need or motivation for the problems that we are doing. Yeah, some of them are just really interesting problems and […]
It’s always refreshing when someone can put into words so eloquently what you have been thinking inside your head and believing for so long. That’s what Darryl Yong did in his recent blogpost entitled Explanatory Power of the Hierarchy of Student Needs. I feel like while I was reading that blogpost I was reading everything […]
So I heard that what everyone is saying about the new Star Wars Movie, The Force Awakens, is that “Everything Old is New Again” – go ahead google it, there are at least 5 or 6 blog posts or articles about how “BB-8 is the new R2D2” or “Jakku is the new Tattoine” or whatever. […]