Links for education

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What’s the problem, and what to do?

• Devlin’s angle http://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devangle.html
  • Lockhart’s Lament http://www.maa.org/devlin/lockhartslament.pdf
• TED Talks
  • Ken Robinson: Schools kill creativity http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
  • Tyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers – make it fun http://www.ted.com/talks/tyler_dewitt_hey_science_teachers_make_it_fun.html

Educational policy:

• teacherken on Dailykos: http://www.dailykos.com/user/teacherken

Advice for learning

• Scott Young’s advice on learning http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog
• David B Rush talks about mentorship in his interview http://web.mit.edu/uma/www/mmm/david-interview-short.docx

Good math teaching

• BetterExplained: http://www.betterexplained.com – teaching math using good analogies
• dy/dan (Dan Myer’s blog) http://blog.mrmeyer.com/ – about teach math by making it more of a challenge.
  • He describes his 3-act math here: http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=10285.
• Mathew Crawford runs math and other educational programs such as MIST Academy (http://www.mistacademy.com) and Daedalus education (http://daedaluseducation.com/).
• ViHart makes excellent mathematical stories/videos: http://vihart.com/.

On technology and education:

• EdTechResearcher (Justin Reich’s blog): http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/
• cMOOCs: http://www.mooc.ca

Education and games:

• Philosophy of gamification: http://www.slideshare.net/dings/dont-play-games-with-me-promises-and-pitfalls-of-gameful-design (Sebastian Deterding’s site: http://www.codingconduct.cc/Welcome)
• http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/