Jon Oaks

Tag: Ramblings

  • Personalized Learning Environment

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    I always get frustrated when I see articles like the Top 25 Web 2.0 Sites for Education because I don't have to look at them all. I'm probably already using most of them already. Some of them actually stink really bad. Some of them require a fee. Well, you're in luck!  Since I'm taking a…

  • An Interactive Model for Mathematics???

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    How can we take the model of the #backchannel and apply it to teaching mathematics?  How can we make mathematics interactive for our students?  How can we engage our students to the point that they would want to gather to do mathematics on their own time?

  • Using Wolfram | Alpha Effectively

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    When I was helping some of my students review for their final exam tonight, I was reminded about Wolfram|Alpha, and how to effectively use it in the classroom.  One of my students was trying a factoring problem, and he all of a sudden started typing it into his computer.  I asked him what he was…