HMC Math Department Retreat

2024/08/21

Documents

Learning Goals Mapping Worksheet [pdf] [View Google Sheet] [Copy of the Google Sheet]
Department Values Worksheet [pdf]

See the list below for a curated selection of relevant posts.

Thoughts on how to engage AI: Here’s How I’m Engaging AI This Fall.
17 ideas for building classroom community: Instead of Integrating AI Into Your Classroom, Do This.
A podcast interview I did with the president of my undergraduate alma mater. We talk about a lot, including the value of productive struggle. No Struggle, No Progress. Know Struggle, Know Progress..
My take on why I don’t think it makes sense to spend time trying to make assignments AI-proof. Blue Books and Oral Exams Are Not The Answer.
About the embedded values in our classroom tools: Chalkboards and What They Can Teach Us About Generative AI.
An encouragement to prototype and embrace a bias toward action: Let It Rip.
Lessons on pedagogy from teaching my kids how to ride a bike. Scoot Bike Pedagogy.
The importance of classroom community. An Ecology of Talent.
Five ideas I’m embracing in my classes this fall: An Ounce of Prevention.
A plea to avoid the rhetoric of inevitability: A Willingness to Contemplate.
On the distinction between the personal and personalized: The Future of Education is Not Personalized
A reflection on generative AI and calculators: An LLM Is Like A Calculator.
Why one-on-one tutoring is not the holy grail of education we sometimes make it out to be: AI Tutors Can’t Solve Bloom’s Two Sigma Problem.
A reflection on productive struggle: Take The Trail Up.