Comments on: TEDxNYED

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:36:54 +0000

@Jim, I attended a talk by one of these guys and liked the idea. A lot. But I only see it working with a whole department buying in. The front-end work of recording those podcasts and then writing your in-class curriculum seems so intense you'd have to have a lot of students using them to see a passable return on investment. @AnonMouse, read it on the plane. I'm excited to see Lemov's Taxonomy. I'm not excited to see the edublogosphere tear him apart, though, and I'm positive they will. They'll call it "behavioralism" and claim it puts too much emphasis on the teacher. I think Bud Hunt's reaction is pretty well measured as far as these things go: "it seems reductionist AND useful."

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:24:46 +0000

@AnonMouse – Kate Nowak discussed the article on her blog, which resulted in a conversation in the comments http://function-of-time.blogspot.com/2010/03/building-better-teacher.html

By: AnonMouse

AnonMouse — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:10:48 +0000

As a fan of this blog, I’m curious: does anyone have any reactions to the recent NY Times Magazine article, “Building a Better Teacher”?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html?pagewanted=all

By: Jim Foley

Jim Foley — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:56:35 +0000

Dan – fantastic job yesterday at TEDxNYED. A former (and sometimes current) h.s. math teacher, I’m a huge fan of the blog and your approach to the profession, and it was great to see you in person. Question – how do you feel about using screencasts to frontload “direct instruction” as homework assignments? It occurred to me this might clash with your no-hw philosophy… or maybe not.

By: Dave Bill

Dave Bill — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:12:08 +0000

Dan. Great talk. You got a lot of people thinking and for that we at TEDxNYED are deeply grateful.

To answer Josh G’s question, yes, Dan’s talk will be posted. We are in the process of post production and will put the videos up on the TEDx YouTube site in the next two weeks.

Thanks again and keep up the great work.

By: bmc456

bmc456 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:40:56 +0000

i too would be interested in the link b/c i failed to remember when it was you were talking. I am quite intrigued by your methods.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:06:38 +0000

Dan,

Great to see you present yesterday. Your method of eliminating the scaffolding from textbook problems is simple and powerful. I’ll be passing this along to my colleagues when it is uploaded.

By: H.

H. — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:00:08 +0000

Someone will post the link here once it’s up, right? (I did catch it live thanks to a message from Jackie, but one of my colleagues here would probably like this a lot.)

By: Michael K.

Michael K. — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:58:32 +0000

Every talk is going to be uploaded to youtube, apparently.

By: josh g.

josh g. — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:49:48 +0000

Shoot, just missed it. Will the talk be archived?