dy/av : 004 : thank you, teaching from Dan Meyer on Vimeo.
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classroom management, time management
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dy/av : 003 : on the office
dy/av : 002 : the next-gen lecturer
dy/av : 001 : earn the medium
Oh, man, awesome. You would’ve found these installations at [redacted] last week.
If I taught science, I’d toss this photo on the wall during one particular unit and let ’em fight over the method. Any readers know how this thing happened? I’ll toss the answer into the comments if y’all founder too long.
[Hint: the answer does not involve a really really tiny lawnmower.]
BTW: a month into summer and I’m totally off my game. Lemme just say that these lawns sculptures involve photosynthesis in kind of a crucial way.
My first two years teaching I felt guilty drawing a paycheck. โ me, the first two seconds of tomorrow’s episode.
Motivating Questions
Like yesterday, buying gas. I started spinning this credit card advertisement and something about it didn’t make sense. I stared at it, cocking my head back and forth like a magpie. Then I saw the two different radii and laughed at myself.
A year ago, that would’ve ended it, but nowadays โ I don’t know. Even during the summer, I can’t turn this thing off, this thing which I tried to illustrate in my second vodcast. I grabbed my Canon PowerShot and shot some video. Then I dumped it into Adobe AfterEffects and added some clarifying visuals.
I’ll play it someday next year at some moment when I’d like them to scratch their heads over how one circle has more circles inside of it. I’ll ask them to make their own, maybe, or maybe we’ll just enjoy the moment, a moment when we brought the world into our math class with video.
Clever Circles from Dan Meyer on Vimeo.
Tracy W, on making sure your stick/carrot is really a stick/carrot:
The [student] gets to define what is a positive reinforcer and what is a negative reinforcer, not the [teacher].
Lots more where that came from in the most recent episode preview.