My students ( who are incredibly tech savvy) have found my website, youtube page, and facebook fan page so I figured I would say hello to them!
Now, go do some homework!
Basically…I’ve grown bored with blogging…or at least the type of blogging I’ve been doing up until this point.
My entire M.O. was all about post quantity over quality and I got pretty burned out with that model. I found myself writing about things that I half cared about…or were vaguely interested in…and that became a massive time suck.
So I took about 2 weeks off.
I’ve been working on, what I think, is an awesome manuscript based on some action research I conducted. I’ve been digging through data collected by other individuals that shows the results of work I’ve done…and the numbers are insane!
Now, I know that just because I was a major variable involved w/ a group of students…and certain under-served populations within those groups of students have shown insane increases in student performance…that doesn’t necessarily mean that I was the cause of those numbers ( Correlation doesn’t always imply causation ).
Anyway, I’ll post snippets of the manuscript here as I get closer to wrapping it up and moving on to some other exciting projects in 2010.
Shout out to KT, RD, and anyone else who doubted what I was able to do.
#NoShots
Deloreans
Planets w/ faces
Bright colors
Anthropomorphism
Awesome
Be Less Helpful – CMC North 2009 – Dan Meyer from Dan Meyer on Vimeo.
Dan is one of my personal sources of professional development. In the video above he demonstrates a number of things, most notably for me, is how he illustrates “being less helpful” and using this idea to engage students who are normally remiss to enter mathematical conversations in class.
I strongly encourage anyone who is not familiar with his work to visit his blog here.
Enjoy!
I’m thankful for those of you who occasionally, regularly, or even rarely read what I have to say here. It means more than you can ever know.
I’ve launched several iterations of this blog over the years. It started off as a classroom portal for my students. However, the digital divide is/was very real for that particular population of kids and most of them couldn’t check the site after school. Next, the site just became a sounding board for whatever crazy ideas/thoughts were floating around my head. During the second iteration I wrote with the sole purpose of trying to gain readership…until I came across a quote by Cyril Connolly;
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
I finally got it…and began writing about the things I cared about…regardless of who did, or did not, come…and I couldn’t be happier with the results. Through this blog I’ve made professional contacts all over the country that I otherwise would never have met. My professional practice has been sharpened and refined by opening myself up to criticism and discourse with anyone who happens to stumble across my URL.
During 2010 I hope to nurture existing relationships while cultivating new ones. Happy new year to everyone out there. Keep writing and I’ll keep doing the same.
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