Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Financial Football

This is a really cool, free, online football game that teaches finances for high school and college students:
Financial Football

Fun in Learning

People will choose to do something more difficult if fun's involved:

Piano Stairs

Possibilities I see:

using at professional development for teachers
using it with students as a writing prompt
using the statistics presented at the end for math lesson
discussing with students cultural differences - do they think it would happen here?

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Testing

In the standardized testing debate, few argue that the companies who score the tests might not be reliable.  Here's one man's description of what life was like as a test scorer:

article

Food for thought....