This post will be just a scoche different than the normal post – a reset if you will. I started this blog to share teaching ideas for using educational technology in the classroom. Graduate school hijacked some of those thoughts and turned them into more deep thinking issues about teaching …
Calculus this week, we continue with trying to figure out how to solve those darn limits. It’s been a struggle for the students to figure out a consistent way to understand what the limit process means. Finding out you are investigating a graph as you approach specific x-values and not about …
If you have been following this blog over the past couple of months, then you know that I have been taking the step towards gamifying my calculus classes this school year. I am really excited about this, but also really nervous. One of the biggest reasons for my excitement is …
I have posted on Twitter a couple of times – but wanted to create a little bit more permanent way to share what I have been working on this summer. So here are the links to my school #edtech PD website and my #gamefication of Calculus. Both of these are skeleton …
I love flipping my classroom! There is some culture shock from the students – but if they work hard and are willing, they overcome it. There is some push back from the parents, but it has been my experience that after explaining how the entire process works, they are generally …
Ok…so life happened and I haven’t been able to sit down and pour thoughts out into my blog nearly as regularly as I would like. However its time to try and get back into some kind of writing routine (this is tough for us math teachers!) Coming up really soon, …
So…If you have read this blog before, you know that I am a flipclass teacher. What you may not know is that I have some confessions to make – enough confessions that my colleague Kristina Stevenson and I created a professional development session. And we had the good fortune to …
So the great experiment that was flipped math last year is now “new and improved” and upgraded to version 2.0! I started using the flip model last year and went all in, flipping three different courses in a single year. Wow! What was I thinking when I decided to do …