RSS Feeds

Productive morning. Worked through the mechanics of establishing some RSS feeds. Got some RSS feeds established for work and pleasure. Fearful of RSS feeds creating a multi-headed monster that I will not care to feed, groom and otherwise be a slave to. Always looking for techniques to simplify: less can be more.

Start of Day 2

Look forward to more conversation and discovery.

Here is an article from last Sunday's NY Times on the "digital classroom". Very topical for the this class:

In a Digital Future, Textbooks Are History

And here is a link to the responses generated and published the next Sunday:

And the Future of the Textbook Is ...

La Premier Post

So far? After poking around this summer looking at some fairly robust blogs maintained by mathematics teachers and their classrooms, I am still looking for the content. The few blogs I have looked through seem to be about engaging the students and teachers in the use of blogs, wikis, flickr, twitter, et al with very little focus on content. Moreover, the time invested in developing these blogs appears to be substantial. Of course students will benefit from exposure to and use of these tools in this environment. But where is the mathematics? Perhaps I am another woolly mammoth stuck in a tar pit on his way to extinction. But if we are going to invest significant effort with this technology I would expect to see more mathematics. Maybe the content is there but I just don't see it? It is early yet. There is a way to integrate these tools and enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics without making it all about the tools themselves.