Comments on: Asilomar #4: Be Less Helpful /2009/asilomar-4-be-less-helpful/ less helpful Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Five principals of the evil teaching guru « Maxwell's Demon /2009/asilomar-4-be-less-helpful/#comment-483950 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:20:42 +0000 /?p=5368#comment-483950 […] this is about what the student does, more than about you. The simplest thing is to simple “be less helpful” but you can take it further and take a risk. Make your students confused, make them fail, it […]

]]> By: » Whovian Horrorshow Learning Studio Noshoku /2009/asilomar-4-be-less-helpful/#comment-398112 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:32:02 +0000 /?p=5368#comment-398112 […] of the recurring themes on super-teacher Dan Meyer’s blog is Be Less Helpful. Spoonfeeding learners only leads to intellectual timidity and, with apologies to Dorothy Parker, […]

]]> By: Time for me to embrace being less helpful « Science Learnification /2009/asilomar-4-be-less-helpful/#comment-378590 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:38:34 +0000 /?p=5368#comment-378590 […] time for me to embrace being less helpful (thanks Dan Meyer). image from […]

]]> By: Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Dan Meyer was right… /2009/asilomar-4-be-less-helpful/#comment-321662 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:16:54 +0000 /?p=5368#comment-321662 […] One change since I left the classroom is our district has adopted a new mathematics text, California Mathematics from Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. In just one week with the text, and already I’m complaining. The text in it’s ambition to be helpful, engaging and entertaining, is constantly focused on the non-pertinent, and telling kids what they should be able to figure out themselves. It’s a beautiful proof for Dan Meyer’s admonition to “be less helpful.” […]

]]> By: Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Dan Meyers was right… /2009/asilomar-4-be-less-helpful/#comment-321661 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:15:27 +0000 /?p=5368#comment-321661 […] One change since I left the classroom is our district has adopted a new mathematics text, California Mathematics from Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. In just one week with the text, and already I’m complaining. The text in it’s ambition to be helpful, engaging and entertaining, is constantly focused on the non-pertinent, and telling kids what they should be able to figure out themselves. It’s a beautiful proof for Dan Meyer’s admonition to “be less helpful.” […]

]]> By: Using vs. Building Models | Science & Technology /2009/asilomar-4-be-less-helpful/#comment-306762 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:18:17 +0000 /?p=5368#comment-306762 […] Less Helpful. That is one of Dan Meyer’s key ideas in teaching math. The basic idea is that if you don’t help students so much, they can learn to think […]

]]> By: Whovian Horrorshow Learning- Cyborg Management 101 /2009/asilomar-4-be-less-helpful/#comment-303036 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:13:06 +0000 /?p=5368#comment-303036 […] of the recurring themes on super-teacher Dan Meyer’s blog is Be Less Helpful. Spoonfeeding learners only leads to intellectual timidity and, with apologies to Dorothy Parker, […]

]]> By: ClimeGuy /2009/asilomar-4-be-less-helpful/#comment-270326 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:28:25 +0000 /?p=5368#comment-270326 I thought I would throw my 2¢ into the ring:
Be less helpful? It depends.

-Ihor

]]> By: The varieties of Be Less Helpful « The Number Warrior /2009/asilomar-4-be-less-helpful/#comment-261536 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:40:50 +0000 /?p=5368#comment-261536 […] to why. I consider the main point to be a problem solving method I’ll refer to (via Dan) as Be Less Helpful, in […]

]]> By: Being A Less Helpful Social Studies Teacher /2009/asilomar-4-be-less-helpful/#comment-254362 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:41:59 +0000 /?p=5368#comment-254362 […] math more effective. One of his biggest contributions to my own thought is the idea of “being less helpful.” For Dan, this is about taking everyday situations that are not inherently mathematical and […]

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