This was originally posted on Grok Learning’s blog – a site worth visiting! Some years back I blogged about teaching coding, including how I introduced programming. Some months back I wrote about computational thinking (CT) and coding and the need to distinguish the two. This time, I’d like to dive deeper into introducing algorithms as […]
Early this week I found out from my English father-in-law of a call to revamp assessments in schools, towards more exams as kids were not prepared for academic rigour in university-level. My first thought then was that the pendulum was swinging back to tests as assessments. I didn’t make any more of it until this […]
I love it when things start to converge in my mind. This post will attempt to encapsulate this convergence; attempt being the operative word. As Jack Dorsey said, simplifying the complex is not easy. Try I must to help me document my thinking. I blogged about Maths not = calculating in reference to Wolfram’s computerbasedmath.org […]
I came across computerbasedmath.org (maths ≠ calculating) via @JeffUtecht’s post My 25%PD. Both these links are worth visiting but let me focus on the first. computerbasedmath.org founded by Conrad Wolfram – yup, the Wolfram behind the site anyone who’s ever googled a maths problem/question would have visited at some stage. Conrad Wolfram’s TED talk \”Stop teaching calculating […]
Today was the first day of the AIS IT Integrator Conference 2010 and there’s heaps to blog about, for sure, but one that really touched so close to home was the session entitled “Thinking Hyperbolically!” I feel inept in my attempt to capture the enthusiasm of the teachers who presented or the magic of their […]