For the past two years, I have been lucky enough (or unlucky if you are less inclined to use technology) to have classroom sets of iPads for my geometry classes and have been able to experiment pretty easily with some different ways of teaching – collecting homework electronically (that was a fail), using Geogebra and […]
OK, so I’ve decided to try to blog more this coming year (like I don’t have anything else to do working at a boarding school) and I happened to run across the TeachThought Blogging Challenge the other day, so I thought I would try to see how many of the 30 days, I might be […]
(Sorry, this is a long one! and caveat: I am not claiming that Wikipedia is the be all and end of definitions!) So according to Wikipedia, PBL means two things (well, three if you count Premier Basketball League, but that’s neither here nor there). If you look up PBL on Wikipedia, the first hit is, […]
Returning from a week-long conference is always invigorating for me – not for the reasons that many people think. I do appreciate the great feedback I get from my “teacher-students” that I interact with during the week who are so extremely eager to learn about PBL – this truly invigorates me and allows me to […]
I’m in the middle of working on organizing my courses for the Exeter conference in about a week and something I’m really struggling with is trying to articulate to teachers how they can impart to their students this idea of grit in the PBL classroom. So I started doing a little research online (besides looking […]
“Kids will never understand fully if you just tell them the answer. They have to break it down and understand it, take it piece by piece ‘cause if you get it straight on you’ll never know what happened. Like if you’re building something you’ll never understand how it’s built, you can never build it again […]
One of my major goals in attending the NCTM annual conference this year was to see how widespread PBL had become in terms of mainstream education practices across the US. I have to say that this year there were quite a few sessions that had PBL in the title or as the central theme and […]
Wow! What an amazing three days I spent at the NCTM annual conference in New Orleans! I can’t believe how much I learned (which actually never amazes me and always humbles me – one of the many reasons I love going to these conferences.) I also hate leaving and knowing that I missed at least […]