Category: Learning

The top 20 principles of Teaching & Learning

From InnerDrive. The top 20 principles of Teaching & Learning

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 …

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Instrumental and Relational Understanding

Good article on instrumental and relational understanding. Focus on Relational Understanding

Tostitos fiesta bowl – some of the best highlights of all time

https://twitter.com/drolsen314/status/1282391894664851456?s=21

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. 

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

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 …

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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

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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Parenting, math, and the Growth Mindset

https://www.youcubed.org/handout-for-parents/