❓ Did you ever feel strong negative emotions in front of a math problem? Do you love math but feel like you are struggling in certain contexts?
📢 This article is for you! We have the privilege of discussing math anxiety with @GashajVenera.
🌏 https://t.co/gY16ltKfu8
In a @TheDiverter article, I wrote about the 7 most common mistakes when evaluating learning, and why it matters for #edtech.
Anything I forgot?
https://t.co/8HMOS40ZGj
And the TL;DR below 🧵
❓ There you are, logging into your favorite language learning app, earning your 200 experience points a day, sometimes even successfully ordering a pizza in Italy. But are you really learning anything?
✅ New article on how to evaluate learning:
https://t.co/34DEV1cyKV
Or should we teach with more abstract representations so students focus on the core of the problem, without any superficial details, and are able to re-apply what they learnt in a wide variety of contexts?
"Transfer of learning occurs when learning in one context enhances (positive transfer) or undermines (negative transfer) a related performance in another context."
Transfer of learning, Perkins & Salomon
For those interested in games, you can check my article about my favorite deduction board games. This was requested a lot, so I hope you’ll enjoy it :)
https://t.co/3sNsOMMbxp
Hi everybody! @majamalmcrona and I sat down again, and talked about how to tell a consistent story of an inconsistent journey, the importance of play and failure and the sadness of failing to play, and, as Maja would say: “how to drill a great hole”.
https://t.co/rgwYTLoUQk
Bonjour la francophonie !
L’article sur @WiseMotionCo est maintenant disponible dans la belle langue de Molière : https://t.co/Hr5B3F2ve9
Découvrez le lien entre neurosciences et mouvement et ce qui se passe à l’intersection entre l’art et les sciences.
Bonne lecture !
We had a versatile and inspiring conversation with a talented doctoral student from our lab at
@ETH_en and @TheDiverter
, Julia Chatain, on neuroscience, creativity and embodiment. In the blog text, you can also enjoy her insightful illustrations!
In an attempt at making the blog more accessible, I added better alt-texts for the images. I will soon go back to improve the old articles as well.
In the meantime, thanks to all the people who took the time to teach me how to do this properly 🙏
“An embodied perspective rejects the Platonic notion of mathematical objects as ideal entities whose mere shadows us mortals might hope to apprehend.”
Embodiment and Embodied Design, Dor Abrahamson & Robb Lindgren, 2014
Have you ever found yourself explaining something, and, after a few examples and a couple of metaphors, concluding by "Well, you get the idea?"
To learn about abstraction, take a look at our last article:
https://t.co/qm22762Zmf
Le nouvel article est disponible en français ! Merci Aude !
Découvrez ce qu'est l'abstraction à travers les yeux de plusieurs experts. Des maths à l'art, de quoi parle-t-on lorsque l'on parle d'abstrait ?
https://t.co/JEQk9imEyE