Adventures in AI (#5)
And we’re ready to push it out to a larger group! As teaching-life will do, I had a crazy week of work last week (7.5 hours of Parent/Teacher interviews — thanks Zoom!) so it took a while to catch up…
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The Death of DeltaMath
Yes, an overly dramatic headline. If you haven’t already tried DeltaMath (www.deltamath.com) it’s a web-based math question site that generates a huge variety of questions based on a template. So, say you want students to practice finding the vertex of…
Quick Poll in Microsoft Teams using the Forms Bot
In Teams, click on the APPS button in the lower left corner of the Teams App. In the Search Box, type form and a card will show up with FORMS on it. In the drop-down menu next to Open, you…
Desmos Test Mode in Windows
Desmos, the popular online graphing calculator, has a Test Mode that locks the device into just the graphing calculator (Link: ) . The challenge is that it’s only for Chromebooks & iPads. And I use a Windows10 device. So here’s…
File Upload in Microsoft Forms
A nice feature now in Microsoft Forms : File Upload!(Remember that all of Office365 — including Forms and OneNote– are free to teachers & students)This is a great option for both Forms and Quizzes… you can now ask people to…
Observations & Conversations : Part 1 of many?
I kinda run on some basic principles when using IT — it’s gotta be free, increase teacher efficacy (modulo some smal learning curve), reduce time spent, it’s got to digitize content and I have to be able to to work…
This is a Test… this is only a test…
This post wouldn’t have been possible without Eric in our IT Dept — he fixed a network setting that prevented us from using TakeATest last year… so a huge shout-out to him (he’s likely relieved because I’ve been pestering him…
Teacher as Student in Anonymous Desmos
I thought that everybody did this! But apparently, not. So this was my XKCD 10,000 moment this week. I happened to tweet the following — and I think it’s my popular tweet of all time. And as you can see, I…
How do you know you’re right?
So I’m only on the 2nd class of the year in my Grade 10 Math course so far. We start late, and we only see them for 3 hours a week, so yes, we move a little slow.I had set…
Differentiation of Product
Now, as a math teacher, “differentiation of product” means something completely different… but for this purpose it means — don’t expect every student to respond to your request for evidence of understanding with the same learning artefact.This is well stolen…