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A Calculating Web Site Could Ignite a New Campus 'Math War' - Chronicle.com

The best content here is found near the end where professors recognize that tools are for calculating and presenting conceptual learning opportunities. WolframAlpha is powerful, but brave, clever faculty will figure out how to use it to take students further in their understanding and applications of math concepts.

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- Mr. Wolfram,
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- - believes that at any given time, one should use the best tools available,
  - “I’m a person who believes that at any given time, one should use the best tools available,” he said.
  - “I suppose I have a personal experience that if you use more tools, you can get more done.”
  - He opened WolframAlpha and entered a homework problem from his calculus course. The problem involved limits and square roots, and the service solved it easily. By clicking the link titled “show steps,” Mr. Petrak illustrated how students could write down those steps and pretend they understood the process when they had simply copied it.
  - also opens the door to teaching more advanced concepts. It shows graphical representations of the equation and introduces concepts he would not usually get to in an introductory course.
  - “It will make it possible for students to do different things than they did before, and it may require instructors to ask questions differently than they might have done in the past.”
  - conceptual, not computational
11 Reasons Why a Tablet PC is Better (than a Whiteboard, Smart Board, or Overhead Projector)

shift from "transcribers" to "thinkers"

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- Once I explain that they do everything a laptop does PLUS you can draw in
  the screen, then the next obvious question becomes, "How does this help me in
  class?"
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- - you don't interrupt the train of thought
  - she had a student (for the first time ever) ask her to
    go BACK 3 pages to where she was five minutes ago
  - interesting
    effect of changing student note-taking - they start to shift from
    "transcribers" to "thinkers".
  - all the students could see just fine. In fact, they
    seemed to be GLUED to the content.
  - learning is social, and eye contact can tell you a LOT
  - students focus more on the content
  - "I like to come up and work
    the problems"
    
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  - anywhere that learning is liable to be happening
  - pre-recording presentations and assigning them as homework
  - more class discussion
Twitter for Academia

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- Then I read an article by Clive Thompson at Wired. Clive’s article convinced me that perhaps it was worth giving Twitter a try.
- Some of these ideas are general, and some are specifically from a Twittering assignment I did for a class last semester
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- - one of the better things I did with that class
6 Lessons One Campus Learned About E-Textbooks - Chronicle.com

Lesson learned about using e-Textbooks

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Twitter Goes to College - US News and World Report

ambient office hours." - Howard Rheingold

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- Compared to other social networking sites, "Twitter is more about creating connections with others who may not be your real friends," she says.
- alert their classmates to world events or issues that are relevant to the course
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- - Howard Rheingold, who teaches at the University of California-Berkeley and Stanford University, was an early adopter of Twitter and often turns to it for teaching advice. He explains to his digital journalism students how to use the site to establish a network of sources and, using tweets, how to entice those sources to follow them in return. In his social media course, he has his students employ Twitter for what he describes as "student-to-teacher-to-student ambient office hours."
  - Rheingold says that how useful Twitter is depends on the individual person. "If you want to share information in small bites with a group of people who share your interest," he says, "that's what it's for."
The Twitter Experiment at UT Dallas - Monica Rankin

This write-up is intended as an informal summary of my use of twitter in the classroom

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When Professors Print Their Own Diplomas, Who Needs Universities? - Chronicle.com

David Wiley taught an online course at Utah State University last fall and let anyone fully participate

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- The unofficial students paid no tuition and got no formal credit
- Open Teaching is the name Mr. Wiley and others use for their experimental knowledge giveaway
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- - Now Mr. Wiley wants to give away the interaction, too. MIT is unlikely to follow his lead.
  - The rapid pace of change means employers want the latest skills without having to wait for employees to go off and get whole degrees
  - one potential nightmare scenario for traditional institutions is that a form of college home-schooling will emerge, where students teach themselves using free materials posted by MIT and other leading institutions.

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A list for thoughtful, ambitious teaching that integrates the best tools available to engage students.

Updated on 2009-07-09
Created on 2009-06-16

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Kathy Cannon's List: Brave New Teaching

A Calculating Web Site Could Ignite a New Campus 'Math War' - Chronicle.com

11 Reasons Why a Tablet PC is Better (than a Whiteboard, Smart Board, or Overhead Projector)

Twitter for Academia

6 Lessons One Campus Learned About E-Textbooks - Chronicle.com

Twitter Goes to College - US News and World Report

The Twitter Experiment at UT Dallas - Monica Rankin

When Professors Print Their Own Diplomas, Who Needs Universities? - Chronicle.com

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