Its been a long time since I made a post, so today I a dipping my toe back in the water. This isnt supposed to be a good post, just a post. My problem is that Ive been stuck for a couple of months now. There are lots of reasons that I have been stuck. … Continue reading
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What gives you the right to create something?
In just a couple of weeks, Ill be officially finished with the spring semester and officially on sabbatical. Ive been thinking about what I want to do on sabbatical, what goals I have, how to use it for rest as well as for work, and how to use it to create something new. … Continue reading
Who Benefits from Educational Intervention?
Last Monday in Liberation Math, the class, we had a great conversation about Logan LaPlantes hackschooling TED talk. Its a great talk, and I highly recommend checking it out. LaPlante is a winner and is doing great things with his education. He makes it all look easy, but extraordinary resources go into making his hackschooling … Continue reading
Math is [fill in the blank]
Today and tomorrow, Im trying to get people to fill in this sentence: Math is [fill in here]. Feel free to give your own answer in the comments below or on twitter. Once I get the blank filled in, Im trying to prompt people to ask why or probe a little deeper. In part, this … Continue reading
Liberation Math Week 7: Easy Now
I have a tendency to make things hard, and I wonder if you have the same issue. Almost everyone in an academic environment gets behind at some point during the semester. I have watched students do this for years. Typically a student starts to get behind, feels bad about themselves, and the bad feeling makes … Continue reading
Liberation Math: Week 2
This weeks in Liberation Math, well be analyzing memories using a method known as memory-work, which you can read more about in last weeks readings. In the in-person class, well be doing memory work, as well as debriefing the first week and figuring out what may need to be changed about the course. The readings … Continue reading
MOOCs as a Liberatory Project
Ive been reading Elizabeth Ellsworths article Why doesnt this feel empowering? Working through the repressive myths of critical pedagogy. This paper is about Ellsworths experiences teaching a course called Media and Anti-Racist Pedagogies in 1988 at UW-Madison. Ellsworth says, about the role of dialogue in critical education, Through dialogue, a classroom can be made into … Continue reading
