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Thursday, January 8, 2009
Is this 21st Century Learning?
If you can get through the song, perhaps you might enjoy the "Fling the Teacher" game on his website which asks 16 questions in a Who Wants to be a Millionaire" style.
Q8 What are the three parts of an essay? one answer: "There is only one main part to an essay and that is writting it."
When you answer all 16 questions, your teacher is bound and gagged and stuck in a barrel where he is flung from a trebuchet and lands with cuts and bruises.
Makes hangman look rather humane. I'm really glad I don't teach in the U.K.
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Perfect! My daughter has just chugged through operations with fraction in Singapore 5 and all the books in Key to Fractions. She can work them like a pro. Seeing this will be the icing on the cake for her I hope. :D
No, it's not 21st Century Learning. If it were, it would be a video of five kids trying to discover how to make fractions into decimals and mixed numbers, most likely within some strained "real life" context, and with little or no help from a teacher.
I'm actually a big fan of Mr. Duey. His delivery style may be 21st century, but his content is traditional and accurate, and free of fluff.
You wouldn't believe (or maybe you would) how many upper elementary and junior high kids I've tutored who had no idea that a fraction could be evaluated using long division. Even fewer of them could convert fractions into percents, unless of course they involved "friendly numbers."
Even fewer of them could convert fractions into percents...
Ahh, that would be percentages, not percents. Sorry grammar buffs (myself included)!
No, I think you were right the first time.
If I get half of my neighbor's 30-bushel tomato crop, that's 50 percent, and my percentage is 15 bushels.
I find Mr. Duey oddly entertaining.
I doubt you could learn much about fractions from this alone, but the song would help reinforce and remind you of the procedure.
Plus, there's a lot worse things kids could be humming other than, "divide the top number by the bottom number"
I think that is now permanently stuck in my head. thanks.
My son also sings, over and over, "divide the top number by the bottom number"--while he's playing World of Warcraft. I hope that means he's internalized it!
Yes, it's definitely a reinforcer, not a first exposure type of video. But as a reinforcer, it rocks.
Ed just met with his editor from the UK, who told him the schools there are so bad they have an entire "lost generation."
Of course, we've got about 3 or 4 lost generations by now...
Finished reading Diane McGuinness' book (Early Reading Instruction). "Look Say" reading instruction began in the 1920s. Dick and Jane books were Look Say primers.
Whole language was the reform.
Awesome video! I guess I've been out of touch with 21st century learning :). If it gets kids to learn, then why not. Some people remember better by singing.
Jason
That's hilarious -- I have to go play Fling the Teacher.
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