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- Scott Hoshida on 28 Mar 13
  
  I like the metaphor of "brain sweat." It captures what we're going for as teachers.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I like the metaphor of "brain sweat." It captures what we're going for as teachers.</div>
  
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Are the students teaching each other?
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Are the questions simple, level 1 questions or higher level questions that could even stump an adult? If a student can make a teacher's brain sweat, then you know they are really engaged and thinking.
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shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 19 Jul 13 - No Cached

David Heckman, a mathematician, was accustomed to lecturing to the class, but he had to take on the role of a roving mentor, responding to raised hands and coaching students when they got stumped
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Like institutions at every level of American education, it is going through some wrenching changes. The university has lost 50 percent of its state funding over the past five years.
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alarmingly high numbers of students showing up on campus unprepared to do college-level work.
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more efficient way to shepherd students through basic general-education requirements—particularly those courses, such as college math, that disproportionately cause students to drop out
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That fall, with little debate or warning, it placed 4,700 students into computerized math courses. Last year some 50 instructors coached 7,600 Arizona State students through three entry-level math courses running on Knewton software. By the fall of 2014 ASU aims to adapt six more courses, adding another 19,000 students a year to the adaptive-learning ranks.
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shared by Peter Beens on 05 Sep 11 - No Cached

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