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Resource sharing between teachers.
As part of my Masters degree, I have created a venture pitch for a project I am working on called Pedagogle.com. Our assignment was to create a pitch as if we are the CEO of an organization which is...
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Ways to use Geogebra in a mathematics classroom
There are a lot of good open source programs out there, but not many of them have direct application to a mathematics classroom the way Geogebra does. Geogebra is a software package for creating and...
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Communication Online with Students Outside of Class
Once you've started working with creating and managing online resources for your students, it becomes natural that the ways the students communicate with you is going to change a little bit. Here are...
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My analysis of two different video case studies on the use of technology in a...
These two case studies refer to videos I have watched as part of my Masters course, ETEC 533 and the copyright on the videos is unclear, so I am unable to show them here.Learning Environment 6 with...
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What kinds of mathematics SHOULD we be teaching in schools anyway?
I was surfing around when I found a really interesting post by Steve Yegge. He makes the point:I'm guessing the list was designed to prepare students for science and engineering professions. The math...
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Introduction to Technology in the classroom course
We are having a discussion in one of our classes, ETEC 533 (Technology in the Mathematics and Science classes) where we are all talking about how little support we've received over the years in our use...
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What would you tell a new teacher?
I had the opportunity to have a new teacher hang out in one of my classes today. We had about a 20 minute discussion afterward where she asked some questions and I got to share a couple of resources....
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Research based teaching
I'd like to be a research based teacher. This means, if research comes out which is compelling and reliable and which suggests that an alternate approach to what I do will work better, then I'll...
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Massively collaborative educational research
The book Wikinomics has really got me thinking about how collaboration happens in our society. One of the area where I think massive collaboration would be really useful, but where it is underutilized...
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I will miss you
Yesterday was my last day working with students as a classroom teacher, at least for the foreseeable future. Next Tuesday is my last day of work in my current school, and on Wednesday I will be flying...
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