There’s been quite a bit of discussion on twitter lately regarding generalists versus specialists. This article on KD Nuggets reported an even split in their poll numbers regarding whether companies try to hire a generalist who has knowledge of all areas required by a data scientist, as opposed to those who said that they hired…
In the 20-day blogging challenge, the prompt for day seven was “Share a classroom management tip. What is one thing you do that works?” My initial thought was that I teach graduate school and if you are still having classroom management problems by then, either you or the student have a real issue. It happens,…
I’m thinking I’m going to need to create a new category on my blog – here is Day 6 of the 20-day blogging challenge, which, if you are just now tuning in is (surprise!), 20 days of prompts on teaching, a challenge I decided to undertake for the hell of it, the same reason I…
It’s now day five of the 20-day blogging challenge, which, if you are late to the party, FYI is an idea of Kelly Hines to blog 20 days in a month on topics related to teaching. “Share any tips for designing/ grading/ giving assessments.” I have two really good ideas for assessment, one of which…
For me, being a woman in technology is like the ending of the Lilo and Stitch movie where he says Es mi familia. Es chica y rota pero es buena, es muy buena. (This is my family. It’s small and broken but it’s good. It’s very good. – The person who quoted this saw it…
Amazingly, given my current schedule, I have made it to Day 4 of the 20-day blogging challenge. This was the brain child of Kelly Hines as a way to get herself to blog more regularly. Today’s prompt was : Share a topic/ idea from class this week. What’s one thing you did with students this…
The question for Day 3 is : “What is a website that you cannot live without? Tell about your favorite features and how you use it in your teaching and learning.” The first part is easy. Oh my God, I love, love, LOVE stackoverflow, a site where all of your programming questions are answered. It’s free…
Today I’m on day two of the 20-day blogging challenge, the brain child of Kelly Hines and a great way to find new, interesting bloggers. The second day prompt was to share an organizational tip from your classroom, one thing that works for you. The latest tool I’ve been using is livebinders . Remember when…
I came across this really interesting post on the 20-Day Blogging Challenge for teachers. I’m not sure how likely I am to be able to finish it in January since it is already the sixth and January is a really busy month for me, but we will see. The first prompt is “Tell about a…
This isn’t the first year that I’ve resolved to be the same, so even my resolving to stay the same is staying the same. I noticed I’ve gotten a lot better with javascript over the last couple of years, a little better with PHP and SQL. My resolution is to keep doing that. As with…