Sam's Blog

From here on out this blog will only be used for big announcements, link sharing, etc. Day to day planning takes place on the calendar .

Hey remember this? We are more-or-less continuing what we were doing yesterday. However, by the end of class, I need everyone to have created their own schedule or have committed to following Mira's.

First, I need to be able to see everyone's work on Khan Academy, so we need to spend 5 minutes to get everyone’s khan academy linked to mine. Then I will check that you did the homework. Here is the calendar where you can find the homework ( link ): How does the pace seem? Let's keep checking in on that and try to get it right. Also: I know sometimes you don't need to watch Khan Academy videos. That's cool. But why don't you leave them playing, muted. Then it will say you completed more of the course (I think this is a good thing to do especially for Geometry, so you have hard evidence of having completed one (or both) semester(s)).

Make quiz policy Make calendar through october! Homework: Finish Introduction to Euclidian Geometry (Khan Academy, Geometry) by 9/29, Monday.

Continue making proposals. If you are done, we will possibly start actually math-ing.

Here's the plan: Proposal: can each class start with everyone reading the blog to see what the agenda is? Convey how stoked  I am to teach this class! This is going to be a really good time. Berate you for the names you chose for this class. Really, "US History" was the best option, but I feel like that could be confusing. So activity: come up with a class name! If I were to ask you to bring a laptop to class every day, could you? Note: I shared a folder with you on Google Drive called Math2014/2015 . We can put all files for this class in there. It is shared to the Google accounts I had for each of you, so if you changed your email from last year, let me know. Go over responses to last class' survey. Briefly, everyone wants to learn some different stuff, but there's overlap. I think we can do this, content-wise. I have an idea for a long-term project/goal for the end of the year (it's gonna rock), and it will require that we document what we d...

I couldn't stay away! First Day Notes: I want you to have freedom (that is, you pick the curriculum) within constraints (the topics have to be at least related to math). I want you to feel like this is your class. If that means people learn different topics, so be it. My Dream: If it works with how you want the class to be structured, I would like this to be a meta-learning experience . What do I mean by that? (From Wikipedia): The prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category). For example, metadata are data about data (who has produced them, when, what format the data are in and so on). In database metadata are also data about data stored in a data dictionary and describes information (data) about database tables such as the table name, table owner, details about columns, – essentially describes the table. Also, metamemory in psychology means an individual's knowledge about whether or not they would remember something if they concentrated on recalling it. Th...