Viva Hathaway was the third session on Saturday, and I looked forward to her presentation with great gusto. I attended a short session she gave at the NCTM Conference in Salt Lake City in 2009, and walked away from her session with a brain exploding with ideas. In fact, on her site, she still has [...]
I have to say I almost left Mr. Godbold’s presentation. It started off on a odd note, where he told us what he wanted to go over, then said we couldn’t do all of it, but we would be lucky if we did half, and then repeated himself for about 10 minutes. He looked and [...]
Timothy Kanold was the Superintendent of Adlai Stevenson High School District in Illinois. This school is a huge success story, because it went from bottom of the bottom to top of the top. They did this through a strong commitment to PLC’s and communication. Now Mr. Kanold did not spend a second on his Keynote [...]
Today had some more very good things happen at the Institute. I think the first thing is the definition of an “Institute” versus a “Conference”. That distinction was made yesterday, and then briefly discussed again today in a session. Now these are not formal definitions, found in a dictionary. These are rough and dirty definitions [...]
That really is the question posed by Dan Meyer in his opening keynote speech at the NCTM Reasoning and Sense Making Conference Institute. Honestly, I had never heard of Clever Hans, and unless you are a fan of esoteric German animal trivia, you might not have heard of him either. Clever Hans was a horse [...]
It is time to start thinking about such things! First, room arrangement. This year I am expecting to have between 30 and 37 learners in each class. In the past, I have had my room arranged in a large, double sided U. This allowed for maximum conversation and collaboration, as well as random number usage [...]
It was the best of conversations, it was the worst of conversations, but in the end, it was an educational conversation for my cousins and I. Okay, enough with the Dickens reference. During the summer I take a little motorcycle trip. Okay, not so little. I do around 2500 miles from Nevada to Montana and [...]
I admit it, I read the funny pages first thing on Sunday morning. Okay, maybe I should first admit that I have a daily subscription to the newspaper and read it cover to cover every day. But, on Sundays, I read the comics first. Yesterday’s Doonesbury was an instant classic in my mind, worthy of [...]
Several months ago I wrote about 53 free android apps for education. Because technology advances and new apps come out and apps change, I will have to update that list. I know the Andy-83 app has been pulled and replaced because of demands of TI, so clearly some updating is necessary. But this post is [...]
When I last left this topic, I had a rather different arrangement of the Essential Understandings based on a theme of graphing, algebraic arithmetic and solving. We took this to our department head, and had a discussion with her about these. Her very valid concern with that arrangement was that the learners may not see [...]