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A FREE Book App - Cool to Be Clever - iGameMom - 2 views

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edson hendricks internet cool clever

shared by Chris Harrow on 14 May 12 - No Cached
  • This is a book App targeted at kids 6 and up, or kids who are ready to read chapter-books.  It tells the true story of Edson Hendricks: He was bullied at school, but found comfort in an imaginary world where he had machine parts, and no biological organs or emotions.  Later he went to MIT and IBM, and invented “connectionless” network design, which is used in today’s Internet. 
Chris Harrow

Mullets: The Only Lesson They'll Remember | Mr. V's Class - 3 views

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ratio mullets algebra proportions

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  • Chris Harrow on 11 May 12
     
    What a great math hook for a middle school class! Thx to John Burk for the lead!
Chris Harrow

Next Time, Fail Better - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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education failure writing computer science

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  • "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
  • When a program runs and produces a good result, it's perfect. It's awfully hard to define success the same way in the humanities. What we do, teaching or writing, can always be better. The program will never simply run.
  • Chris Harrow on 11 May 12
     
    ""Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.""
Chris Harrow

CiteULike: Stereotype Threat and Women's Performance in Physics - 0 views

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physics girls stereotype

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  • Chris Harrow on 10 May 12
     
    Wonder if there are parallel implications in math?
Chris Harrow

Pre-Calc Post-Calc « Suburban Lion's Blog - 3 views

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curriculum reform

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  • I petitioned my counselor to let me skip Algebra II and Pre-Calc to go straight into AP Calculus.
  • A common problem throughout math education is the "When am I ever going to use this?" attitude. I already knew where I was going to use the math I was learning.
Chris Harrow

Free Technology for Teachers: QR Codes Explained and Ideas for Classroom Use - 1 views

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qr codes

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  • I started doing this because often people would miss the links when they're just on a slide at the beginning and end of the presentation. This way people can scan the QR codes with their phones and tablets and have instant access to the resources for the day.
Chris Harrow

Education Week: Concern Abounds Over Teachers' Preparedness for Standards - 0 views

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Common Core standards reform

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  • A quiet, sub-rosa fear is brewing among supporters of the Common Core State Standards Initiative: that the standards will die the slow death of poor implementation in K-12 classrooms.
  • By any accounting, the challenge of getting the nation's 3.2 million K-12 public school teachers ready to teach to the standards is enormous.
Chris Harrow

Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education | Video on TED.com - 1 views

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arthur benjamin ted statistics calculus

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  • Chris Harrow on 21 Apr 12
     
    If you could "fix" or re-direct math education, what would you do? IMO, Arthur Benjamin NAILS it in this brief 3ish minute video.
Chris Harrow

Presenting to learn: learning math by talking about it : Mathematical Communication - 0 views

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communication learning

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  • In other words, students can improve their understanding of math by communicating about it. The following resources describe or illustrate how giving presentations or talking about math can help students to learn math.
Chris Harrow

Is forensic evidence trustworthy? - Boing Boing - 0 views

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fingerprint statistics crime evidence

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  • Science in fiction affects our ability to understand science in real life.
  • Even ideas you think you can trust implicitly—like fingerprint evidence—turn out to have serious flaws that are seriously under-appreciated by cops, lawyers, judges, and juries.
  • Chris Harrow on 17 Apr 12
     
    A surface-level report that might compel some students to look much deeper.
Chris Harrow

High-stakes testing cheats children out of a quality education | Get Schooled - 0 views

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testing reform high stakes

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  • “The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”
  • “[W]hen test scores become the goal of the teaching process, they both lose their value as indicators of educational status and distort the educational process in undesirable ways.”
  • New requirements to assess teachers based on their students’ scores, in particular, virtually guarantee even more cheating will take place.
Chris Harrow

The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph - Derek Thompson - Technology - The Atlantic - 3 views

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history technology graph atlantic

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  • Chris Harrow on 10 Apr 12
     
    I don't know all the places this could be used, but the graph in this article contains a STUNNING amount of information. I think the math is obvious, but I envision some phenomenal social science lessons, technology insights, the evolution of science, the implied connections to the ability of societies to spread information, the differences in cost of the various innovations and why that matters .... Hope you find something cool.
Chris Harrow

Defining Trapezoids | CAS Musings - 0 views

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geometry trapezoid properties parallelogram

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  • Chris Harrow on 02 Apr 12
     
    Some shameless self-advertising, and probably of interest only to math logic & curriculum wonks, but I believe there is a good argument for using a more inclusive definition of trapezoids.
Chris Harrow

Some responses to replies to my posts on curriculum reform « Granted, but… - 2 views

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grant wiggins curriculum reform pbl

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  • The goal is always to emulate best practice.
  • The content does not determine the flow, the goals of meaning and transfer do. But content matters; it can’t just be projects. It takes artful design.
Chris Harrow

Flipped learning: A response to five common criticisms | eSchool News - 1 views

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Flipped flippedclassroom pedagogy

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  • It’s our opinion that one of the reasons this debate exists is because there is no true definition of what Flipped Learning is. The method is often simplified to videos being watched at home and homework being done at school. If this is the definition, then we should all be skeptical. Instead, we should look closer at
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