Oct 22, 2018
Okay, so I guess I should have thought about the fact that Anatomy and Physiology would involve, you know, anatomy–and physiology. It should have occurred to me that one does not learn how the body looks and functions just by reading books or listening to...
Oct 22, 2018
I thought for this first week, I’d share a bit of the talk I gave at the TYCA Midwest conference in Indianapolis earlier this month called “Would You Please Start Arguing? When Academic Argument, ‘Mere’ Opinion, and Comments Section Culture Collide”. In the talk I...
Oct 22, 2018
I have been doing a lot of research lately on dyscalculia. Wondering if my students have it and what I can do to help them. I was pretty amazed at what I found. I learned that it affects 7% of the population. I learned that some students that have dyscalculia are able...
Oct 22, 2018
If you teach a class where you have lots of group activities, as I do, you inevitably face the issue of how to divide the class up. If your class already clumps into prickly social pods, then letting them group themselves risks replicating the same social order. But...
Oct 22, 2018
At what point do kids lose their interest in school? It happens, let’s not fool ourselves. How do we take a human, that is intensely curious of the world and grind that out of them? Watch any growing up and you can see them performing experiments constantly. The...
