What Students Do (And Don’t Do) In Khan Academy, Ctd.
My analysis of Khan Academy’s eighth-grade curriculum was viewed ~20,000 times over the last ten days. Several math practice web sites have asked me to perform a similar analysis on their own products....
View ArticleTracy Zager Offers You And Your Fact Fluency Game Some Advice
Thoughtful elementary math educator Tracy Zager offers app developers some best practices for their fact fluency games: I’ve been looking around since, and the big money math fact app world is enough...
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The Future Of Handwriting Recognition & Adaptive Feedback In Math Education
In math education, the fields of handwriting recognition and adaptive feedback are stuck. Maybe they’re stuck because the technological problems they’re trying to solve are really, really hard. Or...
View ArticleMoving the Goalposts on Personalized Learning
Mike Caulfield: But the biggest advantage of a tutor is not that they personalize the task, it’s that they personalize the explanation. They look into the eyes of the other person and try to understand...
View ArticleWhy Secondary Teachers Don’t Want a GitHub for Lesson Plans
Chris Lusto calls for a GitHub for lesson plans: To say that the community repository model has done wonders for open source software is a massive understatement. To what extent that success translates...
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Collective Effervescence Is the Cost of Personalized Learning
Cross-posted from the Desmos blog. I’m happy enough with this post to re-broadcast it here. The Desmos blog doesn’t have comments, also, which makes this a better forum for you to tell me if I’m wrong....
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with This Experiment?
If you’re the sort of person who helps students learn to design controlled experiments, you might offer them W. Stephen Wilson’s experiment in The Atlantic and ask for their critique. First, Wilson’s...
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[Desmos Design] Why We’re Suspicious of Immediate Feedback
One of our design principles at Desmos is to “delay feedback for reflection, especially during concept development activities.” This makes us weird, frankly, in Silicon Valley where no one ever got...
View ArticleProblems 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...
View ArticleWhy Secondary Teachers Don’t Want a GitHub for Lesson Plans
Chris Lusto calls for a GitHub for lesson plans: To say that the community repository model has done wonders for open source software is a massive understatement. To what extent that success translates...
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Collective Effervescence Is the Cost of Personalized Learning
Cross-posted from the Desmos blog. I’m happy enough with this post to re-broadcast it here. The Desmos blog doesn’t have comments, also, which makes this a better forum for you to tell me if I’m wrong....
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with This Experiment?
If you’re the sort of person who helps students learn to design controlled experiments, you might offer them W. Stephen Wilson’s experiment in The Atlantic and ask for their critique. First, Wilson’s...
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[Desmos Design] Why We’re Suspicious of Immediate Feedback
One of our design principles at Desmos is to “delay feedback for reflection, especially during concept development activities.” This makes us weird, frankly, in Silicon Valley where no one ever got...
View ArticleProblems 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...
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