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What I wish, in relation to textbooks (first, get rid of the publishers)
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: February 13, 2011
I have just been watching, for the 4th or 5th time, the Bloomberg Channel’s Game Changers story of Steve Jobs. The thing that got me thinking again about the very high price of student text books was Steve’s implementation of i-Tunes: 99¢ a tune, or forget it. Steve Jobs and Apple had both the hardware […]
Mathematics and art: Test based versus project based assessment
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: February 12, 2011
The following post was written by Michel Paul (edited – mainly links and images – by Gary Davis) _____________________________________________________________________________________ Something that has occurred to me regarding test based assessment vs. project based – our test based approach tends to emphasize ‘math and science’ rather than ‘math and art‘. However, math has just as much to […]
