From InnerDrive. The top 20 principles of Teaching & Learning
Category: Learning
Aug 14
WALDO – Workflowing the Amazing Lesson Design Outline
This Google doc is comprehensive teaching methods course and education research course rolled up into one document organized into clickable links. It is compiled by Miguel Guhlin. It include most all of the aspects of the teaching enterprise (including pre-assessment, edtech, instruction, assessment, and reflection). Included are also the effect size of approaches and research …
Feb 08
Instrumental and Relational Understanding
Good article on instrumental and relational understanding. Focus on Relational Understanding
Jul 12
Tostitos fiesta bowl – some of the best highlights of all time
https://twitter.com/drolsen314/status/1282391894664851456?s=21
Nov 16
Graphicacy
Good summary of what graphicacy is, especially early graphicacy in children.  Click to access espresso_22_early_graphicacy.pdf This definition of graphicacy does not seem to be comprehensive enough to include spatial sense, but is an important subset, or component of, spatial sense and visualization. This definition of graphicacy seems to emphasize data visualization. 
Aug 08
Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later. (And by the way your son, too.)
Good opinion-editorial piece. I think it does deemphasize conceptual understanding problem-solving and may over-emphasize practice, but overall this is a good article. I like the analogy of doing math in playing a musical instrument. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/opinion/stem-girls-math-practice.html
Feb 12
Wow, Annie Forest’s VLOG Made Me Flashback
While listening to Annie Forest’s vlog at http://showyourthinkingmath.blogspot.com/2017/04/small-changes-that-make-big-impact.html my life kinda flashed before my eyes! As further background, Mrs. Forest is highlighting an excellent article, titled, “Never Say Anything a Kid Can Say!” Author: Reinhart, Steven C.; Source: Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, v5 n8 p478-83 Apr 2000. The article is excellent! The things I learned from …
Mar 02
Educational technology that helps kids learn — and doesn’t
Good Article: Silicon Valley teacher: Don’t confuse educational technology that helps kids learn — and doesn’t https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/03/01/silicon-valley-teacher-dont-confuse-educational-technology-that-helps-kids-learn-and-doesnt/?utm_term=.f42cdd0ff493
Sep 19
Stick that in your head
Here’s a ‘quote’ I came up with on one of my runs one day. Someday I should turn this into a lecture. Perhaps uttered at the end of a class period: Stick that in your head, so that when you need it, you’ll have it. More fully: Stick that in your head, so that when …
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