“Computers have the power to liberate math from calculating, raising its use to new levels—exactly what’s happened outside education,” said Conrad Wolfram. “Mimic this real-world of math, and your education will become more conceptual, more practical, and more motivational.” Mathematical problem solving is 1.Posing the right question 2.Translating a real-world problem into math 3.Computation 4.Translating …
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Nov 15
Visualizing Math: Free Demonstrations on Wolfram Demonstrations Project
A New Kind of Yin Yang Rotation from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project by Frederick Wu Mathematics, like the air we breathe, is part of every subject we study, image we gaze on, and sound we hear. To hear someone say they don’t have the math gene, strikes me with the same sadness as to hear …
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Nov 02
Getting Ready for Code Week
Grace Murray Hopper’s birthday, December 9, marks the beginning of the Computer Science Education Week and the Hour of Code. Amazing Grace, born in 1906, was a computer scientist and a US Navy Rear Admiral. She was a pioneer programmer, the first to coin the word “debug” when she pulled a moth from the computer …
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Oct 26
Distracted: How Mindfulness and Meditation Transformed a College Classroom
“I was able to feel relaxation, tranquility, focus.” – Dan Suriano “It helps get my thoughts and feelings in order,” – K.J. Miller “The mandalas brought us together and cleared our minds” – anonymous “I enjoyed it so much, I couldn’t stop [when the assignment was over.]” – Ventura Simmons “helped me calm down at …
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Oct 12
Risk Taking: Finished Product or Fluid Open Collaboration?
We are in a time of mass collaboration, a time when there is no longer a comprehensive textbook a marine biologist professor can offer to their students. WoRMS, the World Register of Marine Species, is an online database in which marine research is immediately updatable. Global partnerships in research can be made quickly. The information …
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Preparing Daughters for Financial Predators
My daughter joked growing up that I was over preparing her to handle finances. She had a checking and investment accounts as a teen, access to credit cards, learned to write checks and budget purchases before she left for college. She was skilled at negotiation, confident enough to walk away from a deal and knew …
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Sep 28
Google and Wikipedia in the Classroom
What does a room full of 4th graders using Wikipedia have in common with a room full of college students in a classroom shouting out conflicting information from their e-devices? I am working with fourth graders at Baden Academy as we develop together a year-long new curriculum that integrates their science curriculum, but also seeps …
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Sep 21
The Radix Endeavor: A Video Game Being Used for High School STEM subjects
I spend a few hours this morning playing The Radix Endeavor, a game designed to help high school teachers lead and assess their students in the content areas of biology, algebra, geometry and statistics. It is in beta testing by MIT Education Arcade (funded by the Gates Foundation in collaboration with Filament Games). It is …
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Sep 16
Creating Projects with Real World Impact: Becoming a Resource to the World
Given the choice of a completing an assignment to make a real world impact or writing an assignment that will be thrown away, what would you choose? Students in my Global and Cultural Perspective’s class are struggling with this question as reach into the into the vast stores of recent academic research at Duquesne’s extensive …
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Sep 07
Syria – A Teachable Moment in Critical Thinking, Digital Tools, and a Hermeneutic of Suspicion
A Facebook post grabbed my attention last week. It was an August 29 letter from Trappist nuns in Syria to President Obama. But was it real? I used the opportunity to model for my Global and Cultural Perspectives class efforts to authenticate sources. The letter claimed to be from Trappists nuns living in Syria. Trappists …
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