Comments on: You Have No Life

By: Four short links: 8 October 2009 - O'Reilly Radar

Four short links: 8 October 2009 - O'Reilly Radar — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:51:40 +0000

[…] You Have No Life — if a video smacks even slightly of concentrated effort or advance planning, someone will inevitably scoff that the subject has a) “too much time on his hands” or b) “no life.” Ten times out of ten. […] After six years I lack a succinct, meaningful response to my students’ defensive, clannish embrace of mediocrity, though I’m grateful for this tweet, which comes pretty close: dwineman: You say “looks like somebody has too much time on their hands” but all I hear is “I’m sad because I don’t know what creativity feels like.” tags: amazon, DIY, EC2, encryption, Linux, Make, programming, unix $(".button.print a").click(function () { jQuery.cookie('thePostID', "38133" , {expires: 1, path: '/' }); }); […]

By: MatthewPearce

MatthewPearce — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:58:22 +0000

Lets thank our ancestors for their nerdy endeavours such as calculating log tables.

By: Great work in math education (through blogs and Star Wars) | Civil Statistician

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:26:31 +0000

[…] got hooked by this line: You say “looks like somebody has too much time on their hands” but all I hear is […]

By: What role does a teacher have now ideas are dead? « Musings of a Maths Teacher

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:07:30 +0000

[…] is cool isn’t time lost – that there will be benefits that mightn’t be obvious. Â Dan says: It’s so obvious to me that the kind of person who would create a cocktail-mixer from balsa […]

By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » We Had Too Much Time On Our Hands

dy/dan » Blog Archive » We Had Too Much Time On Our Hands — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:49:44 +0000

[…] recall that I snapped back in September. I would show my students videos of someone doing something awesome (for instance) and if that […]

By: Too much time on their hands? — The Endeavour

Too much time on their hands? — The Endeavour — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:05:11 +0000

[…] Wineman might have as easily said “persistence.” I found Wineman’s quote in a post by Dan Meyer responding to criticism of his research […]

By: Shared Items From Google Reader – October 26, 2009 at timlauer.org

Shared Items From Google Reader – October 26, 2009 at timlauer.org — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:02:34 +0000

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By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:09:32 +0000

Hey Dan, I too found you from Apartment Therapy. Your blog speaks to me, not on a mathy level, but on a teaching level. I teach 12th grade comp and lit and I get, all the time, but THIS IS SOOOO BORING.

I have found that I say Boring is another way of saying, “I don’t get it and since I don’t get it, I don’t have any patience for why you are stoked about it.”

I love talking about how people write about issues like disease vectors including zombies or vampires or why handwashing matters or even about why Goneril really wasn’t trying to stab King Lear in the back.

I think your passion (and I’d like to hope mine) serves as an inspiration to your students. What’s true is that what WE are excited in and passionate about is what we teach best.

By: CarrboroGirl

CarrboroGirl — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:00:48 +0000

Stumbled upon this from Apartment Therapy/The Kitchen. I think your grocery line project was really interesting and i loved doing the math alongside you. Please don’t listen to the people who mock you and your creativity, I think it was a fun exercise!

By: Jerry Tuttle

Jerry Tuttle — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:32:41 +0000

Well done, Dan. The real world is full of math – it takes a creative teacher to help kids realize this!