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Pearson-backed Startup Aims to Be the Zynga for Learning - 1 views

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Pearson

shared by wlampner on 01 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 01 Feb 12
     
    the site is peddling educational material rather than time-sucking games, and that's an important distinction. As it builds profiles of learners, it starts to make recommendations for college readiness and even career choice - all the while baiting them with the promise of more Yoops. If we can use game mechanics to get kids hooked on virtual-currency powered farm fields, why not learning?
wlampner

Study: How smooth-talking professors can lull students into thinking they've learned mo... - 0 views

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metacognition lecture active_learning

shared by wlampner on 09 Sep 19 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 09 Sep 19
     
    Several important points here including the part about multiple choice questions, and the need to explain active learning to students.
wlampner

The Making of a Teaching Evangelist - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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problem_based_learning active_learning lecture

shared by wlampner on 20 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • Mr. Mazur realized what he had really been teaching them: to memorize formulas.
  • Joy is not a word that often describes the lecture.
  • One humanities professor wrote last year that lectures work because they demand that students pay close attention, connect ideas, and understand how to build an argument.
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  • Mr. Mazur wondered whether lecturing was an ethical teaching choice.
  • a lecture is only as passive as the listener
  • Students learn when they think about what they’re hearing and organize it into salient points. "This places the responsibility for learning on the student,
  • modern zeitgeist places the responsibility on the instructor.
  • Lecturing, he says, serves another important purpose. It reaffirms the importance of expertise and allows students to see how an expert role-models the process of working through a problem.
  • Learning is not a spectator sport,"
  • Lectures are inexpensive for institutions, allowing hundreds of students to be assigned to one faculty member.
  • Mr. Mazur often likes to cite education research suggesting that students overestimate how much they learn from a smoothly delivered lecture.
  • The lecture creates the perfect illusion
  • Students read material before class on an online platform
  • Students post comments on the reading and respond to one another’s annotations
  • comments drive the next class.
  • o answer each problem, students do four things: articulate the problem in their own words, devise a plan to answer it, execute it, and evaluate how well it worked.
  • omplete the problem sets alone before class and work in teams during it to correct errors
  • not graded on how correct their answers are but on their effort and their accuracy in judging how well they understood the problem.
  • udents do complete five hourlong "Readiness Assurance Activities" during the semester. In the first half-hour they solve the problems alone; they can consult the internet but not one another. In the second, they go over the problems again, this time with their teams. Their scores reflect individual mastery and collective contribution.
  • Project-based learning is the center of the new course. Students work in teams. Many projects have low-stakes competitions attached to them, like constructing the most secure safe by using magnets as locks. Other projects have an explicit social benefit, like building musical instruments for an orchestra for poor children in Venezuela.
  • Mr. Mazur has moved himself far offstage; he missed about 40 percent of the meetings this past semester. Class just rolls on without him.
  • Peers, Mr. Mazur says, are a far greater source of motivation than a professor.
  • His syllabus dedicates two paragraphs to the virtues of failure
  • They should see failures, he writes, as "learning opportunities, not negatives, as steppingstones to success."
  • Repeated failure, as he has learned, is necessary for success.
anonymous

HostMath - Online LaTeX formula editor and browser-based math equation editor - 0 views

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tools online math

shared by anonymous on 09 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 09 Sep 15
     
    Pretty cool online LaTeX editor that seems to be MUCH more intuitive than other options. Might be something we could use for having students 'enter' equations as answers so the math quizzes aren't 100% multiple choice?
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