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Working with a 1 to 1 laptop program
At our rather large high school in Thailand, we have a 1 to 1 laptop program. Every student in the high school has a laptop, which they are supposed to bring to class. After a year and half working...
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Computers should transform mathematics education
Stephen Shankland posted an interesting article on CNET today. Here is an exerpt from his article, which you should read in full. He says:Clearly, children need some understanding on their own of math,...
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Mumbo Jumbo
Algebra is just mumbo jumbo to most people. Seriously.If you asked 100 high school graduates to explain how algebra works, and why it works, I'd guess that 99% of them couldn't, not in sufficient...
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Presentation: Programming in Mathematics Class
This presentation is based in part on the TED talk Conrad Wolfram gave a couple of years ago, and on some insights gained at the Computer Based Math summit I attended in November. The below...
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Programming with 3rd graders
I did two things I've never done before - I taught 3rd graders, and I introduced elementary school kids to programming.Yesterday, I started off by talking to the kids about how programs work on a...
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Kindergarteners programming
Here are two sample programs from a pair of kindergarten classes today (I took screen-shots of their program, and cropped them to fit in this blog). Program 1: Program 2: I started the kindergarteners...
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Access to computers
President Obama recently unveiled a plan to have broadband Internet access in every school across the United States by 2018. There's only one huge problem with that plan; according to the US...
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