Should we ask students to subscribe to a newspaper?
Every day, I find articles in the newspaper that relate to my Business Ethics course and the...
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Category: Digital Literacy
Web Browser Basics
Web Browser Basics There are several web browsers in use at any given time. Here are the main ones...
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Add Graphs In The World to Courses
Now you can add Graphs in the World to your courses in the LMS! Create a new “page” in...
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WolframAlpha Facebook Report
This is a delightful exercise that everyone seems to love. WolframAlpha will provide you with an...
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Report from the 1st TaLDA Workshop
During the 2nd week of May, a group of faculty and instructional designers gathered for the first...
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Navigating WolframAlpha Pro Features
Last week I had to do a workshop about WolframAlpha, and I noticed that there are three different...
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10 Things Our Kids WILL Worry About Thanks to the Information Revolution
After reading this list of “10 Things our Kids will Never Worry About Thanks to the...
Read MoreWolframAlpha: Recalculating Teaching and Learning
For at least a decade, we have had the ability to let CAS software perform computational mathematics, yet computational skills are still a large portion of the mathematics curriculum. Enter Wolfram|Alpha. Unlike traditional CAS...
Read MoreWhat we’re doing with WolframAlpha
Originally, I started this post with the title “What I’m doing with Wolfram|Alpha” and then I revised it, because it’s not just me using Wolfram|Alpha. My students are using it too. Here are some of the...
Read MoreTransforming Math for Elementary Ed
After several months alone to think about why education has become so transactional, I decided that I’d have to “walk the walk” and not just “talk the talk” and so I set about revamping my own...
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Technology Skills We Should Be Teaching in College
This is a follow-up to my recent research about Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age. ...
Read MoreTeaching and Learning in the Digital Age
Two years ago at the beginning of the fall semester, I was given the chance to speak to the faculty on my campus about technologies for teaching and getting organized, which is how the mindmaps Web 2.0 for You and Organize Your...
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