Date registered: February 16, 2015
Aug 23
35 Psychology-Based Critical Thinking Strategies
Jul 06
Tanmay Vora (@tnvora) has two very nice sketchnotes and associated articles on learning. Tanmay Vora’s associated articles are here: How Our Brain Learns Which is adapted from the article (by Belle Beth Cooper) 6 important things you should know about how your brain learns (#6 is Interleaved Learning) When Does Real Learning Happen? I was …
Nov 03
I like to use the following story of a parent interacting with their 3-year-old to make a point. Parent: “OK Everybody get your shoes on.” 3-year-old: “Why?” Parent: “Because we need to get in the van.” 3-year-old: “Why?” Parent: “Because we need to go to WalMart.” 3-year-old: “Why?” Parent: “Because we need to get some …
Oct 04
Top 20 Principles from Psychology for PreK–12 Teaching and Learning Click to access top-twenty-principles.pdf
Feb 16
This is a nice infographic on terminology. Validity, positivism, etc. There is a good list of sources at the bottom of the infographic. http://designresearchcenter.unt.edu/sites/default/files/articles/research_v2_ryan_gupta_hermosillo.pdf
Feb 16
A couple years ago, I made a fairly extensive page on research, titled, Math Education Research and a Plethora of Committee and Government Reports. With this website coming on board, I probably won’t be editing that page much (we’ll see). I will probably make this site my main workhorse when it comes to Math Education …
Feb 16
This site is (new as of 2/15/15) under construction. Yep, it needs to be organized.
Feb 16
Link “Technology is doing to math education what industrial agriculture did to food: making it efficient, monotonous, and low-quality.” This is pretty (OK, quite) negative on technology. I don’t think it claims (or the reader should conclude) that all technology is bad. It offers some very realistic concerns. The article is fairly extensive.
