Category Archives: education

Wrong Problem, Wrong Solution

Posted on 2006-12-19 by alan

This posting by Roger Shank (found via Stephen Downes) uses widespread ignorance of the quadratic formula by successful people as evidence that mathematics requirements in our schools are excessive. But I know that in BC it is quite possible to … Continue reading →

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Update on Blackboard Patent

Posted on 2006-11-15 by alan

Stephen Downes links to this article by John Cox

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Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~

Posted on 2006-11-08 by alan

Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~

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squareCircleZ � When am I gonna use this stuff?

Posted on 2006-10-11 by alan

squareCircleZ � When am I gonna use this stuff?

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EdTechPost: Campus 2020

Posted on 2006-09-25 by alan

Scott Leslie writes “on Campus 2020 Think Pieces – Envisioning Post-Secondary Education in BC 15 years out”

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squareCircleZ on teaching gambling in math

Posted on 2006-07-16 by alan

squareCircleZ: Should we teach gambling in math classes?

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Weapons of Math Instruction

Posted on 2006-06-13 by alan

This has been around for at least a couple of years but keeps returning to the email inbox so I thought I’d point out that although the authors of the joke seem to see “al-gebra” as just a funny coincidence,I’ve … Continue reading →

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Whiteboard Movies

Posted on 2006-06-05 by alan

Whiteboard Movies

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check out mathplayground.com

Posted on 2006-06-01 by alan

This does seem worth looking at for K-8(+) level online math activities.

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Serving Maths

Posted on 2006-05-29 by alan

Serving Maths (at York in the UK) is a project combining various assessment tools in mathematics.

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BCcampus Online Communities –

Posted on 2006-05-15 by site admin

BCcampus Online Communities – “BCcampus EdTech Online” will be discussing on-line testing on Wed May 17 @noon

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Innovate – Places to Go: Moodle

Posted on 2006-02-01 by site admin

Stephen Downes had an article on the ‘Moodle’ CMS in the Dec/Jan issue of the ‘Innovate’ journal of online education.

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Downes on Sakai

Posted on 2006-02-01 by site admin

Stephen Downes has an article on the ‘Sakai’ CMS in the ‘Innovate’ journal of online education.

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EdTechPost: Reports from the CETIS Vocabularies Project

Posted on 2006-01-18 by site admin

Scott Leslie comments on progress (or not) in the development of controlled vocabularies for paedagogical resources.

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The Myth about Online Course Development

Posted on 2006-01-14 by site admin

Stephen Downes comments on an Educause Review article

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EdTechPost: An Evaluation of Open Source CMS Stressing Adaptation Issues

Posted on 2005-12-19 by site admin

EdTechPost: An Evaluation of Open Source CMS Stressing Adaptation Issues

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