There’s a lot of blogging, writing and research (and anecdotal stories) out there these days about trying to foster the value in students for the appreciation in failing. I even wrote a blog entry two years ago entitled “modeling proper mistake-making” way before I read anything or watched any videos on the Internet. From teaching […]
I have to say that I am not usually a controversial blogger – I’ll just put that out there right away. However, I am so frustrated with the conversations, blog posts and articles that are zipping around the blogosphere about online learning, MOOCs and Khan Academy that I have to say something about it as […]
So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about technology and learning. There’s so much in the news about MOOCs, using iPads, schools using technology, etc. I am even part of a pilot program at my school right now where all of my students have iPads in my honors geometry class and we are trying to […]
I just got back from a great visit to Toronto (which was also my first visit to that wonderful city.) I spoke at a conference and also did some work at beautiful girls’ school there that was interested in PBL. It was the first time where two of my research interests intersected (Gender and PBL) […]
Everyone has those mentors in their life who have impacted their work or career in ways that have truly changed who they are. In my instance, the person I am going to write about not only has impacted my life and career, but because he taught me so much about great teaching, in particular PBL, […]
As the new school year approaches, I’m re-editing, once again, my PBL text that has been a “work in progress” for about seven years now. Every year my colleagues and I at my old school would take the input from our department and the students in the course and improve upon the work. This is […]
One of the issues I talk about a lot with people who are interested in Problem-Based Learning is the “continuum” of integration that I use to tell people how they can implement it in their classroom. How do you want to incorporate the teaching with problems in your classroom? Magdalene Lampert wrote a wonderful book […]
Recently there have been some discussions going around the Internet concerning Kahn Academy and other Internet-based “teaching tools” and their applicability or acceptability in terms of pedagogically sound classroom use. You can check out Dan Meyer’s blog or tweets about the MTT2k project, which I find pretty amusing actually, or Kate Nowak’s blog entry where […]
This past week I spoke with many teachers who are being asked to implement an iPad program in their schools this coming year and feel as though they are lost in the woods. Although their schools are doing what they can to support math teachers in their endeavors, the truth is that the “mobile technology […]
For everyone in my PBL course this week at the conference, please be sure to fill out the survey. Click here to take survey I had two truly wonderful groups of people in my class this week and am grateful for the experiences that we all shared in the conference as a whole. I hope […]