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New Year’s Thoughts
Seemed like an appropriate time for some thoughts from Whitehead on education: Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge. In education, the broad primrose path. . . is represented by a book or a … Continue reading
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AMA (11.15.12)
“Why do people like symmetric things? What’s a cardioid? Why does the Fibonacci sequence show up in plants? What makes e so special?” There aren’t unequivocal answers to the first and third ones, but some speculations are more reasonable than … Continue reading
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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
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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Why a school should *not* run smoothly all the time
School administrators often seem to have a primary goal to make the school (or their little part of it) run smoothly. To be fair, I too find it easier when the things I am in charge of run smoothly. But … Continue reading
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Education Then and Now
(more from that same email exchange–on a roll, right?) My correspondent and I were discussing whether kids today were “as well educated” as kids a generation or two ago. I suggested that the drop in standardized test scores paradoxically suggested … Continue reading
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Creativity Then and Now…
from a follow-up email with my colleague) My considered, but not researched, judgment is that there is at least as much creativity now as when we were kids, but it’s expressed in many more ways. There are still people who … Continue reading
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Tools vs Apps
A colleague pointed out the following quote to me from a blog he follows, basically saying in his email that he was afraid the writer is correct. “I wonder if the ‘app-ification’ of computing is turning out to be the … Continue reading
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Some go up and some go down?
A response to the question posed in the previous post: We had a brief moment when we were moving toward social literacy in computing. At St. John’s, it occurred thirty years ago, and I remember it clearly because it was … Continue reading
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