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The Importance of Frustration in the Creative Process, Animated | Brain Pickings - 4 views

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creativity frustration teaching learning

shared by Chris Harrow on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • When we tell stories about creativity, we tend to leave out this phase. We neglect to mention those days when we wanted to quit, when we believed that our problem was impossible. Instead, we skip straight to the breakthrough. We tell the happy ending first.
Chris Harrow

Daniel Willingham - Daniel Willingham: Science and Education Blog - 3 views

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study learning strategies

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  • Rereading is a terribly ineffective strategy. The best strategy--by far--is to self-test--which is the 9th most popular strategy out of 11 in this study. 
Chris Harrow

Study smart - 3 views

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study learning strategies

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  • it may be that the study habits you've honed for a decade or two aren't serving you as well as you think they are.
  • while last-minute cramming may allow you to pass a test, you won't remember the material for long
  • research shows that mixing tasks and topics is a better bet.
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  • Despite strong evidence that interleaving works, it can be tough for teachers to work the mixed-up style of teaching into their lectures,
  • students might not enjoy taking a quiz at the end of every class or testing themselves every time they finish reading a chapter, but doing so would probably help them remember the material on the final exam — and even after the class ended.
  • even though most professors won't use daily quizzes in their courses, students can — and should — test themselves by asking themselves questions during study sessions.
  • "One of the most important transitions you make [at the beginning of graduate school] is realizing that you are really there to learn, not just get good grades,"
Chris Harrow

My Reflections As A Mother on the Murder of Trayvon Martin « BTransformed - 0 views

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murder trayvon martin black african-american

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  • I learned in law school, and it is still true today, that it is the color of the victim, not the perpetrator, that is the one of the greatest determinants in criminal sentencing. 
  • they have no idea what it is like for black parents to have to prepare their children to deal with a public that often still judges them by the color of their skin.
  • when you walk out of the safety, protection and loving arms of our home, you are walking while black, and only our prayers can protect you then.
Chris Harrow

Top 10 - 101qs - 0 views

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dan meyer 101questions act one

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  • Chris Harrow on 24 Mar 12
     
    A great collection of Dan Meyer intro video clips
Chris Harrow

"Children's Need to Know: Curiosity in Schools" -- Harvard Educational Review - 1 views

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harvard curiousity children learning

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  • Chris Harrow on 14 Mar 12
     
    "curiosity is both intrinsic to children's development and unfolds through social interactions. Thus, it should be cultivated in schools, even though it is often almost completely absent from classrooms."
Chris Harrow

APOD: 2012 March 12 - The Scale of the Universe Interactive - 0 views

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astronomy interactive scale universe nasa

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  • Chris Harrow on 12 Mar 12
     
    Learning about differences in scales and orders of magnitude
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Fake Money - Act 1 on Vimeo - 1 views

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exponential dydan meyer stadel vimeo money

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  • Chris Harrow on 11 Mar 12
     
    This is a great Act 1, in Dan Meyer terminology, for introducing exponential functions. It's 40ish seconds long & totally accessible for ES, MS, & HS students.
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{Musing Mathematically}: Measuring Roots - 0 views

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roots radicals ruler irrational

shared by Chris Harrow on 09 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • For many students, no matter their age, math begins with an answer. You then form a question, jeopardy style, to help disguise the number.
  • Most students learn to expect math questions and problems to be short, quick, to the point, solvable and structured around "clean" answers (often related in some way to integer components). They anticipate the answers before they anticipate the questions. I am not sure if they even consider the math.
  • They completely miss the point and the empowering strength of math process and pattern.
  • Chris Harrow on 09 Mar 12
     
    This is a spectacular posting that could be used with ES or MS students (or possibly HS students, too) to explore square roots.
Chris Harrow

Afraid of Your Child's Math Textbook? You Should Be. - Annie Keeghan - Open Salon - 0 views

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textbook publishing

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  • Chris Harrow on 09 Mar 12
     
    So, should we all be writing our own stuff anyway? Even so, editors and extra eyes are VERY HELPFUL....
Chris Harrow

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

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devlin teaching learning instruction

shared by Chris Harrow on 09 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • 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.
Chris Harrow

Desmos | Interactive education. For every platform. For everyone. - 0 views

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online graphing_calculator

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  • Chris Harrow on 07 Mar 12
     
    Free online grapher ... very nice graphics. Handles polar & Cartesian, function & inequality forms very well. No tools (intersection, etc.), but very nice, FAST graphics.
Chris Harrow

dy/dan » Blog Archive » The Comprehensive Math Assessment Resource - 3 views

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dan meyer assessment

shared by Chris Harrow on 25 Feb 12 - Cached
  • If you'd like to see assessment amount to more than a meaningless exercise in classroom control, if you'd like to see cheating drop and confidence rise, if you'd like to see a higher correlation between the grade you feel a student deserves and the grade on that student's transcript … … take something from this page.
  • Chris Harrow on 25 Feb 12
     
    A collection of truly insightful musings on assessment, whether you teach math or something else.
Chris Harrow

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

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blogging outreach dan meyer devlin

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  • 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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