Before I left for the Anjs S. Greer Math Conference last week, I read an amazing blog entry at the Math Ed Matters website by Dana Ernst and Angie Hodge that was talking about Inquiry-Based Learning and the mantra “Try, Fail, Understand, Win.” The idea came from one of Prof. Ernst’s student course evaluations this […]
What a great time we had this week in my courses! I am so excited by all of the folks that I met and the CwiC sessions of other leaders that I went to. Pretty awesome stuff presented by Maria Hernandez from NCSSM, my great colleague Nils Ahbel, Tom Reardon, Ian Winokur, Dan Teague, Ken […]
This past January, I gave a key-note address at the ISOMA conference in Toronto and posted my slides from that talk on my academia.edu site that I thought would be a good place for me to easily give other people access to my work. (along with my website). Academia.edu is great because it gives you […]
As someone who has used Problem-Based Learning for almost 20 years and sad to say has never been part of a full-fledged Project-Based Learning curriculum, what I know best is what I call PBL (Problem-Based Learning). I know there is a lot of confusion out there is the blogosphere about what is what, and with […]
So after nine, long hard years, I am finally at a point where I am proud to say, “I’m finished!” Woo-hoo and hurrah, tonight I will submit my dissertation electronically and you can call me Dr. Reading over my work has been probably one of the most fulfilling acts of my professional life, as was […]
Any Mad Men fans out there? I just love some of the characters and the struggles they put themselves through. In one episode from season 5, called “Signal 30,” Lane Pryce needs to take some clients out to dinner and Roger Sterling is giving him some advice on how to woo them to sign a […]
There’s a lot of blogging, writing and research (and anecdotal stories) out there these days about trying to foster the value in students for the appreciation in failing. I even wrote a blog entry two years ago entitled “modeling proper mistake-making” way before I read anything or watched any videos on the Internet. From teaching […]
I have to say that I am not usually a controversial blogger – I’ll just put that out there right away. However, I am so frustrated with the conversations, blog posts and articles that are zipping around the blogosphere about online learning, MOOCs and Khan Academy that I have to say something about it as […]
So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about technology and learning. There’s so much in the news about MOOCs, using iPads, schools using technology, etc. I am even part of a pilot program at my school right now where all of my students have iPads in my honors geometry class and we are trying to […]
I just got back from a great visit to Toronto (which was also my first visit to that wonderful city.) I spoke at a conference and also did some work at beautiful girls’ school there that was interested in PBL. It was the first time where two of my research interests intersected (Gender and PBL) […]