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Observations: Scientific American Blogs - 0 views
Seth's Blog: Writing naked (nakeder than Orwell) - 3 views
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Study Hacks » Blog Archive » On Becoming a Math Whiz: My Advice to a New MIT ... - 1 views
TeachPaperless: 10 Ways to Help Students Ask Better Questions - 1 views
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The points students bring up are thought-provoking. However, I'm most impressed by the questions they ask one another. They clarify and ask follow-up questions. They make inferences. They ask connecting questions and critical thinking questions. It's a messy process, but it's beautiful messy. It's art.
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As long as a question is respectful, I want students to question their world. This applies to analyzing mathematical processes, thinking through social issues, making sense out of a text or analyzing the natural world for cause and effect.
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I require students to ask questions before, during and after reading.
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Stanford Students Start Their Own Course-Management Web Site - Wired Campus - The Chron... - 0 views
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A student-run Web site at Stanford University seeks to convince students to input their class assignments to keep themselves—and their classmates—more organized. It could, founders hope, grow into a student-run course-management system.
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Once one student adds an assignment in a class, everyone else in the class has it added to their calendars, as well. Ultimately, he’d like to expand the site to include social events on campus, to help students better plan every aspect of their lives. He also plans to allow students to flag incorrect assignments.