Education ∪ Math ∪ Technology
Fawn Nguyen recently updated her terrific Visual Patterns website and mentioned how she used AI to help her rebuild the site. She also updated the patterns on the website to all use squares instead of some of the random shapes previously used in patterns. This got me wondering: how well can AI make sense of [ ]
There are three different ways the word learning is used, and all of them are important. Educational technology companies usually pick one of these forms of learning to focus on, but to be effective, their products really need to do all three. The feedback systems built into their products need to find ways to support [ ]
Our current “system of education is actually hodgepodge of different competing organizations layered on top of each other. It s not actually a system at all. If you compared our system for professional learning to a relay race where each organization in a teacher’s career should pass the baton of learning to the next organization, it’s [ ]
Now that I’ve been coaching math teachers again, I have been in a lot more classrooms and doing classroom observations again. In a past iteration as a math coach , I created this checklist of things to look for explicitly when observing teachers. The goal at the time was to be able to have our [ ]
School culture trumps great teaching, or it can. When teachers try to teach the way they think is best, they do so while navigating the culture of the school and community where they work. What is considered excellent teaching is dependent on both the school culture and the dominant culture the students come from. Our [ ]
Every school I ve worked at uses a teacher evaluation system where the primary goal is to determine if whether the teachers are doing a good job or not. These systems typically look like goal-setting with an administrator or supervisor at the beginning of the school year, a few observations of the teacher during the year [ ]
How can we inspire educators to do the challenging work that is required to develop and extend their practice? What role do routines play in student learning? How do we help educators focus on the right metrics for learning? What role does technology play in student learning? I ve created a new streamlined page for my [ ]
I learn something and then we are tested on it, and I know I never to know it again, so I immediately forget it. A Grade 11 Student It seems incredibly common to me. Teachers teach, students learn, teachers assess, and then students forget. But why does this happen, and why do we accept it? [ ]
This research brief from Vanderbilt University that suggests metacognition in math class is interesting to me for a couple of reasons. The first is that it includes suggestive evidence this practice works and can be implemented at scale. Of course, like most things that are attempted to be used at scale, educators have to understand [ ]
There are a number of services claiming to create lessons plans for educators. Just type in your goal, and the generative-AI creates a lesson plan. But is the lesson plan worth using? In theory, services that aim to save educators time are worth investing in, and educators spend a lot of time researching and planning [ ]