https://www.desmos.com/calculator/my4nzqnsmw

I would love to see more data like this and use it to build out an Algebra II start of the year unit focused on understanding linear-ish relationships.

Exactly what I’m looking for. Thanks, Mary!

(Sorry, Rene – meant to reply to my own comment above! Maybe Dan can move the comment?)

(And Storify is pretty cool – I haven’t used it much myself, but it seems like a nice tool for crystallizing and saving that Twitter give-and-take we all enjoy!)

That’s sounding sensible to me – a quick (maybe 1-minute) encapsulation of the lesson plan, followed by 10-20 minutes of audio (or video?) showing how the lesson played out in practice, cut together with the teacher commenting and reflecting on particular twists/turns/decisions.

In a sense, that “Exploding” process is the mirror image of Song Exploder. Where they start with all the little sonic elements and creative choices, and then reveal at the end how they form a unified song, you’d start with the unified plan, and then reveal how it entails all the little pedagogic elements and creative choices.

That’s a helpful distinction in the first paragraph. I’m curious about two things:

(1) What the experience of Song Exploder is like if you’ve never heard the song.
(2) How the podcast gives the audience the minimum context necessary to appreciate the analysis that follows.

I’m wondering how hard it’d really be to compress the lesson plan down initially to a capsule summary and then decompress it through a few minutes of analysis and live audio.

Helpful perspective here. Seeing the same dilemma or technique applied across ten different lesson plans or seeing the same moment from the same lesson plan taught ten different ways — those both seem really appealing (if also 10x more expensive to produce).

You also highlight a significant limitation of the Teaching Channel model — that it tends towards the extraordinary and the hyper-prepared. In my ideal world, I think the teacher is just wearing a single mike and there is a single class mike somewhere in the center and everyone forgets about it pretty quickly.

Jason was at a loss for hypotheses. Denis (from NJ) suggested the same NYC connection.