Re: [PEN-L:5916] Great Ideas for Teaching(was further pen-l challenge)

1996-09-02 Thread Peter Dorman
Doug Orr's reference to the use of clocks to illustrate models of time -- and modelling generally -- prompts me to share an exercise I participated in a few weeks ago. I attended a week-long workshop on collaborative learning, and one of the activities had groups trying to estimate how many pi

[PEN-L:5916] Great Ideas for Teaching(was further pen-l challenge)

1996-08-31 Thread DOUG ORR
On aug 30, Michael Perelman wrote: >Now that the school year is beginning, maybe we can consider >strategies to become more effective in the classroom, given the >constraints of the existing texts, job insecurity, ... I have been thinking about this idea for a while. The rightwing textbook by