| | Ok, so I haven't posted in forever. Not that anyone notices or cares, but that's par for the course.
I'm sitting in the Canisius College Bowhuis Library in Buffalo, NY typing this before my class in Adolescent Literacy. I know that last term seems oxymoronic. Perhaps it's just moronic. Either way, I'm working out ways to teach Math to adolescents and enhance their literacy levels at the same time. Perhaps by including segments of Freakonomics, stuff about the history of Math, or even just newspaper articles on how the guitarist from Apples in Stereo uses his knowledge of Calculus to figure out his scales on their most recent album, I'll be able to turn kids onto something interesting.
Oh - and if you haven't already figured it out, I'm in Teacher's College working towards a Masters in Education in Adolescent Mathematics. I'm going to be a high school math teacher, which is relatively exciting and/or scary depending on whether or not you want me lecturing children.
Either way, the people here at school all seem very nice, if not amazingly well informed. My introduction to literacy course was less than spectacular. Needless to say the fact that I disputed with the professor over the mark on my final project, and when I resubmitted it with corrections she lowered my mark, I was less than pleased. Perhaps we could say there was a negative correlation between effort and results. Hopefully that isn't par for the course in education in general.
Hope everyone enjoys reading meaningless rambling yet again. Talk to you all soon...
Oh and by the way, you can also check out my musical discussions at http://www.indiemusicfilter.com and my hockey discussions on http://www.hockeyanalysis.com . I contribute to both fairly regularly.
Adios Amigos.
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| | Posted 4/3/2007 3:59 PM - 23 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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