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Chris Harrow

MOOCtalk - 0 views

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    An interesting 'blog from Stanford's Keith Devlin (NPR's Math Guy) who is documenting his thinking as he prepares to offer a MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) on Mathematical Thinking.  This is an incredibly compelling read if you are interested in transition issues from secondary to college, the future potential of online courses, and/or mathematics education.
Chris Harrow

Devlin's Angle: If You Don't Have a Web Presence, Are You Doing Your Job? - 2 views

  • the fact that there are millions of people who, rather than examine the evidence and change their position, prefer to cling to what they were taught as children, is simply a fact of life
  • Americans seem particularly prone to this head-in-the-sands behavior.
  • Sure, it takes time to build those networks. But there is an audience out there of committed teachers who are eager for all the help they can get.
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  • If no teacher has learned of, or been influenced by, our work, why should we expect society to continue to support us?
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    Great find. I've listened to the entire discussion linked in Devlin's talk and it is fantastic.
Chris Harrow

Devlin's Angle: The difference between teaching and instruction - 0 views

  • I quickly figured out how to play that game successfully – success in that case being measured by my being able to solve under exam conditions, problems like the ones the teacher had shown us and we had practiced in class and done for homework.
  • In fact, you can’t separate real teaching from learning. They are simply two perspectives of the same human interactive process.
  • For whereas technology can provide instruction and can provide teachers and students with resources to assist them, what is cannot do on its own is teach them.
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