One of my students referred to a task we were doing in class today as “touchy feel-y flower child” methods. Not something that one expects to hear in chemistry class, when classifying compounds as either ionic, polar covalent, or non-polar covalent.
This was because I was discouraging the method in the book, which no one except [...]
Archive for March 4th, 2008
Touchy Feely Flower Child
Posted in chemistry, difficulties, math, students, tagged intuition on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t love technology
Posted in difficulties, technology on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, I actually had notes on my computer, in a little PP presentation, to save some time while reviewing and to have fast access to some practice problems.
The LCD projector would not work. It searched, and searched, and searched for my computer. I tried to play with it after class, but no dice. Why???
It was [...]
An Open-Ended Test
Posted in assessment, tagged open-ended test on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think some of my students are going to HATE the upcoming test. This test came from two places. First, I like to give my students a chance to “show me what they know,” and not just what I ask them. Second, it came from the joy of stoichiometry that I discovered when discussing games.
I [...]
