A noisy classroom is a learning one! One popular strategy to get your kids talking is the “turn and talk” method. 🗣Your Ss turn to a classmate near them and discuss the problem or concept.
What strategies do you use to encourage meaningful classroom discussion?
#ITeachMath
Overwhelming majority of survey respondents were only interested in campus-based study, with just 10 per cent prepared to countenance fully online learning
https://t.co/H72oyx3ABx
Is the physical lecture dead? No, say a group of VCs I'm listening to right now: students value "shared listening", even in a traditional lecture format, and turning up to physical lectures gives the "excuse" to stay on campus for a club or society etc.. #THEWAS
Elon Musk’s bizarre Tesla bot demo exposed the truth of many tech reveals: They are a storyboarded vision of the future held together by digital duct tape: https://t.co/HXHah3ZYNO
📷: Tesla
Oregon governor signs bill suspending math, reading proficiency requirements for HS graduates https://t.co/hqjHvUvO0X #FoxNews we will all die; no math? no reading tests? calculus is as important as air (or something)
When academics do tackle curricular reform, they often focus on improving the structure of a particular course rather than on altering the path to a degree.
https://t.co/EmrE0rC9JF
Even Mary Beard, Prof of Classics at Cambridge, in 'Confronting Classics' wrote "many of the arguments now used to justify the learning of Latin are now perilous...honestly if you want to learn French, you'd be better off doing that, not starting with some other language first"