Problems with Personalized Learning
A reader pointed me to this interesting article in the current Educational Leadership on “personalized learning.” She said it raised an alarm for her that she couldn’t quite put into words and she...
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1,000 Math Teachers Tell Me What They Think About Calculators in the Classroom
Yesterday, I asked teachers on Twitter about their classroom calculator policy and 978 people responded. I wanted to know if they allow calculators a) during classwork, b) during tests, and also which...
View ArticleMust Read: Larry Berger’s Confession & Question About Personalized Learning
Larry Berger, CEO of Amplify, offers a fantastic distillation of the promises of digital personalized learning and how they are undone by the reality of learning: We also don’t have the assessments to...
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The Four Questions I Always Ask About New Technology in Education
A tool called Graspable Math found an audience on Twitter late last week, and a couple of people asked me for my opinion. I’ll share what I think about Graspable Math, but I’ll find it more helpful to...
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Learning the Wrong Lessons from Video Games
[This is my contribution to The Virtual Conference on Mathematical Flavors, hosted by Sam Shah.] In the early 20th century, Karl Groos claimed in The Play of Man that “the joy in being a cause” is...
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Big Online Courses Have a Problem. Here’s How We Tried to Fix It.
The Problem Here is some personal prejudice: I don’t love online courses. I love learning in community, even in online communities, but online courses rarely feel like community. To be clear, by online...
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“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
Economist Herb Stein’s quote ran through my head while I read The Hustle’s excellent analysis of the graphing calculator market. This cannot go on forever. Every new school year, Twitter lights up with...
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The 2010s of Math Edtech in Review
EdSurge invited me to review the last decade in math edtech. Entrepreneurs had a mixed decade in K-16 math education. They accurately read the landscape in at least two ways: a) learning math is...
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The #1 Most Requested Desmos Feature Right Now, and What We Could Do Instead
When schools started closing months ago, we heard two loud requests from teachers in our community. They wanted: Written feedback for students. Co-teacher access to student data. Those sounded like...
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Computer Feedback That Helps Kids Learn About Math and About Themselves
Students are receiving more feedback from computers this year than ever before. What does that feedback look like, and what does it teach students about mathematics and about themselves as...
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