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Sunday, May 12, 2013

Students from PES NZ: better than the traditional media

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Last week there was quite a bit in the news about the visit of Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas to New Zealand. While he was officially...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Time To Move On

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So today I really borked this site. I tried to uninstall the commenting service disqus and now I can't get the blog to take comments. I...

It Would Have Been More Fun If It Was Figuring Out a Trip for Us: Mr. C, What Is a Real World Scenario Part 2

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The students finished figuring out the expenses to my baseball trip in July yesterday. Depending on the price of hotel and tickets it will...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Mr. C, What Is a Real World Scenario?

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"Mr. C, what is a real world scenario?" asked Stephanie. This question yesterday caused me to completely change today's math ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

They Had to Fail to Prepare for Success

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I am observing my class work on an assignment due yesterday. They spent 4+ days pretending to do what they were supposed to. I say pretend...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Lunch Project Days 6-10

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I haven't forgotten the project, we have just been working through a bit of the drudgery. The first thing we had to do this week is get...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Why Blogging Isn't Transformational for Our Students Yet

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Dr. Chris McGee wrote a blog post wrote a post on his blog Coaching in and out of the Classroom  on the importance of blogging. It helped ...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Interesting Student Observation About Peter Pan

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While discussing the movie Peter Pan (2003) I asked the question, "Why is Mr. Darling and Hook always played by the same actor?...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Lunch Project Day 5

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Today was a turning point day, after we figured out the mean, median, mode, and range for each choice  we discovered that the first choi...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Maybe This Is Why We Don't Share Our Failures

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Photo by RusselDavis I presented a session at METC on students creating video reflections. As you can (if you know me at all) imagine ...

The Lunch Project Day 4

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Here are the observations that some of the students made after looking through yesterday's datum: Francisco: Chicken patties ar...
Monday, March 4, 2013

The Lunch Project Day 3

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Today we worked on finding the percent each lunch choice had been chosen daily. Then we started looking at that data. The students are l...
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