Last year I taught an online statistics course for high school students. The text we used was also online, but it was designed for college students and was not well-written. The second semester of that course coincided with my burgeoning interest in sketchnoting, so I decided to bring that interest into our virtual classroom. I… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Education
Sketchnotes of the Introduction to ‘The Courage to Teach’ by Parker J. Palmer
Recently I’ve been revisiting Parker J. Palmer‘s wonderful book The Courage to Teach. While listening to the book I’ve been sketchnoting some of the key ideas. In the images below you will find my notes from the introduction (click on an image to view a larger version). If you want to read about my first… Continue Reading
Sketchnotes: Digital Storytelling to Promote a Sense of Place and Social Justice
Back in October I attended the Northwest Conference on Teaching for Social Justice at Madison High School in Portland, Oregon. The sketchnotes below are from one of the sessions I attended, titled ‘First Person Singular: Digital Storytelling to Promote a Sense of Place and Social Justice,’ presented by Lauren McClanahan who is a professor… Continue Reading
Creativity vs. Formal Schooling
Has your education encouraged you to develop and maintain your own creativity? To what degree? The shape of the graph above is definitely the extreme case, and will vary from person to person and from school to school. And though it’s probably impossible to even keep that line flat due to the way we are… Continue Reading
How I Teach
When I completed my student teaching experience in a high school physics classroom, I asked my students what they had liked about my teaching and what they hadn’t liked. Interestingly, what they enjoyed was also what frustrated them the most – that I rarely gave a direct answer to their questions. My goal was to… Continue Reading
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking Sketchnotes – The Development of Math and Math Education
The sketchnotes above are from the background reading assigned in the first lecture of the course Introduction to Mathematical Thinking. The sketch captures just one of the ideas from the reading – that our pre-collegiate education teaches mathematics that is over 300 years old. While the mathematics developed during that time is still relevant and… Continue Reading
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking Sketchnotes – Lecture 0
More than anything else, the first lecture from the course Introduction to Mathematical Thinking focuses on the dichotomy between high school mathematics and college mathematics. High school is how to drive a car; college is how to fix and even build one. High school is pure procedural work; college is about how to think. … Continue Reading
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking Sketchnotes – Meet the Team
I recently registered for one of the new online courses offered by Coursera – Introduction to Mathematical Thinking. Though the class has not yet started, the instructor has posted a few videos that introduce the team working on the course and discuss the core issues that the course will deal with. I took some sketchnotes… Continue Reading
The Cover Up Math Method
One of the projects that I’m working on this summer is developing teaching resources for a set of math apps developed by The Center for Algebraic Thinking. One of those apps, called Cover Up, taught me an approach to solving math problems that I hadn’t used before but found useful. I have outlined the method… Continue Reading
