Thursday, February 5, 2009

This is sooo hard!

Date of class- Jan 29th.

Today's class was a very unsettling experience. Jackie spent large parts of time just dealing with expectations, behaviour patterns and habits of mind. Plenty of spots that glow in terms of how much effort she puts into the class but hard for me to write up in terms of what it meant as class that will work with technology.

Before I forget too much about what happened in this class, I will record a few main themes and then elaborate on them later

  • Get Help - use wikipedia, parents, teachers and peers
  • Think before you speak and know when you are conjecturing
  • Fill holes left by first semester teaching
  • Teach new topic for 20 minutes - planned to do Fathom demo but no time
  • Use your time - be intellectual - plenty to keep you busy even if you know nothing on quiz.