Monthly Archives: March 2010
Indiana teacher licensing changes now official
The sweeping set of teacher licensing changes for Indiana, which I first blogged about here last July, has officially been signed into law. Frankly, I’m surprised, on two levels. First, although this proposal flew mainly under the radar in Indiana, … Continue reading
Filed under Early education, Education, High school, Life in academia, Teaching
Programming, lectures, and the inverted classroom
Image via Wikipedia We started programming in the MATLAB course a couple of weeks ago. It’s been… interesting. Keep in mind that 75% of the students in the class have never written a program of any sort before; half the … Continue reading
Filed under Critical thinking, Education, MATLAB, Teaching, Technology, Uncategorized
Calculus reform’s next wave
There’s a discussion going on right now in the Project NExT email list about calculus textbooks, the merits/demerits of the Stewart Calculus textbook, and where — if anywhere — the “next wave” of calculus reform is going to come from. … Continue reading
Filed under Calculus, Education, Linear algebra, Math, Teaching, Textbook-free, Textbooks
Content theft
This blog used to have two different URL’s — castingoutnines.wordpress.com as well as castingoutnines.net. The latter was a holdover from the days I self-hosted this blog, and when the domain name registration period drew to a close in December of … Continue reading
Filed under Blog announcements, Casting Out Nines
You can’t become an expert in college
Here’s something of an epiphany I had at the ICTCM while listening to Dave Pritchard‘s keynote, which had a lot to do with the differences between novice and expert behaviors in problem-solving. Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers, puts forth … Continue reading
Filed under Education, High school, Higher ed, Life in academia, Problem Solving, Study hacks, Teaching
ICTCM day 2
[Ed. note: This post was originally written on March 13 while at the ICTCM, but I ran out of time on my $12.95 per day internet access before being able to post it and only now have had the chance … Continue reading
What I learned at the ICTCM, day 1
Busy day here at the ICTCM. I need both an extended time for brain-dumping and a full night’s sleep, and I think the latter is going to win. So here’s a brief listing, in no particular order, of some of … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Educational technology, ictcm, Math, MATLAB, Technology, Twitter
ICTCM underway
It’s a beautiful day here on the shores of Lake Michigan as the ICTCM gets underway. It’s a busy day and — to my never-ending annoyance — there is no wireless internet in the hotel. So I won’t be blogging/tweeting … Continue reading
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Filed under ictcm, Maple, MATLAB, Scholarship, Screencasts, Social software, Software, Web 2.0, Wolfram|Alpha
Working and having a life, redux
Image via Wikipedia The Chronicle has an article on a Harvard survey of Gen-X professors and their attitudes toward the balance of work and the rest of life. The professors surveyed indicate that they want to be successul in their … Continue reading
Filed under Family, Higher ed, Life in academia, Tenure, Vocation
Program note: ICTCM coming up
Just a note: I’ll be attending the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM) in Chicago next week, March 12–14. I’ll be giving two short talks there: “Integrating spreadsheets, visualization tools, and computational knowledge engines in a liberal arts … Continue reading
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