A blog on Maths, ICT, education and some random stuff…
Archive for June, 2010
An idea…
Jun 26th
I’ve just had an idea I may use in my teaching, and since I’m trying to use this blog for collecting my thoughts… here goes:
Set a homework task for students to add 3 (or whatever amount is appropriate) examples of a certain skill to a class wiki. For example, suppose More >
How should roles, curriculum, assessment and education institutions be reconfigured?
Jun 24th
Whilst researching the above question for my H800 course I found the following interesting blog post from the Educational Paradigms blog:
Teaching Is Not About Knowing (Anymore)I think this quote summarises the post very well:
It’s not about knowing. It’s about pointing the way and providing the tools (for students to create, learn, succeed).
However, More >
A Mighty Number Falls
Jun 24th
After eleven months of calculation by computer clusters from three institutions, the prime factors have been found for a 307 digit long number. What does a number with 307 digits look like? Here’s one:
12948719847198741987491874127247975847647607608236582736510756102876082375608237608237562087035612948719847198741987
49187412724797584764760760823658273651075610287608237560823760823756208703561294871984719874198749187412724797584764
760760823658273651075610287608237560823760823756208703561983748103948573933
“This is the largest ‘special’ hard-to-factor number factored to date,” explains EPFL cryptology professor More >
Impressed with WordPress
Jun 20th
Students’ frustrations with a web-based distance education course
Jun 19th
The following quotes come from an article by Hara and Kling (1999): ‘Students’ frustrations with a web-based distance education course’. I have picked out the sections that seemed most interesting to me.
The literature about distance education is dominated by enthusiastic studies and accounts.
Distance education advocates argue that the increasing number of More >
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