I meant to finish preparing for my first day of classes tomorrow, but something that Shelly Blake-Pock posted about earlier was preying on my mind. (Well, that and all the fun-fun-fun of being at a new school, learning new culture and mores.) He posted about the fear of social media that he was observing in [...]
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Two Arguments for Using (Some) Rubrics
On an anti-rubric argument
Shelly Blake-Pock has written a very thoughtful, honest and, in many respects, bang-on attack on rubrics. He clearly defines the extreme ends of the spectrum for disastrous rubric usage:
First of all on the issue of transparency. Most rubrics come in one of two varieties. Either they are extremely didactic in a step-by-step hold-your-hand IKEA [...]
Math on the Web
Shelly Blake-Pock just posted a question on his blog about teaching math in a paperless environment (in fact, since I started gearing up to respond, he’s posted some follow-ups as well).
Last year, wearing my math teacher hat (nominally given to me as a member of the Math & Computer Science department — normally only worn [...]
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