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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Math and English
One of the vocab quizzes from the previous post talked about how the student preferred math to English because math produced “objective answers.” When I shared that quiz with some other folks, it produced an interesting exchange. Stanford student: Good … Continue reading
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A little comic relief
The two passages below are vocab quizzes from two of my students. The control of tone is especially fine, I think, since although there are some obvious exaggerations, you can’t always be sure what is at least semi-serious and what … Continue reading
Different perspectives
In math, a student asked a question about infinity last week, and so we spent the rest of the class talking about Cantor and his innovative approach to dealing with infinite sets. One student asked whether the information would be … Continue reading
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Group work
We keep hearing that school should involve students in more “real-world” situations (or prepare them for such, at least). I am of mixed minds about the basic premise, particularly as it applies to group work. However, I am nonetheless continuing … Continue reading
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Notes from a talk on social justice
Rawls: Justice as Fairness Human justice is inherently a social construct. Individual justice is basically just vengeance Concepts of social justice Plato: the Republic and philosopher-kings Hobbes: benevolent monarchy Locke: social contract Kant and the categorical imperative—eliminate need for social … Continue reading
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