Around the edublogosphere, a teacher without a wiki counts less than a fireman without a hydrant. I teach. I blog. And yet I don’t use Moodle in my classroom. My classroom isn’t Web 2.0 compliant. My students aren’t podcasting. I can imagine maybe one out of my eighty kids running home to her blog after school but the rest are oblivious to any Internet past their MySpace profiles and Google.
Dan Meyer
I’ve been moving through past seasons of The Wire, as seems to be the mandatory assignment of every bleeding-heart white blogger nowadays. All these hosannahs — “… the reason Edison invented television,” etc. — have left me feeling cold, however.
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Over the weekend I wrote up a mini-thesis on my assessment methods, which, though standard operating procedure at my last school, are pretty foreign here. I gave it a deliberately confrontational title, “How Math Must Assess.” SOP here is to use whatever tests the manufacturer supplies and give them whenever the manufacturer arbitrarily decided to divide the textbook. I worry that this arbitrary approach to testing stirs up a lot of hatred for math. The implication I try to avoid, since it’s so cocky coming from a third-year teacher’s keyboard, is that I know how to do it better.