Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

Equal Access Doesn’t Mean Equally Helpful Edward Gonzalez oversees open educational resources for the Kern County Superintendent of Schools in California. He’s spent his 25-year career working for social change and transformation within public education, in part through what he calls “humanizing mental models and systems.”

Knowledge 146

Knowledge Educational Technologies Technology Education 146

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Ability to access Google Docs and Sheets is needed. Participant device prerequisites. Laptops and Chromebooks tend to play best with Google Docs and Sheets, which is what we will be using to facilitate some of our work together. Purpose and objectives.

Mental Models 97

Mental Models Participation Coaching Questions 97

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

My favorite is probably the quote from Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis: ‘In the absence of knowledge, people make up their own.’ There are numerous ways to give students access to deeper learning, greater student agency, and more authentic work opportunities that don’t involve learning technologies.

Learning 88

Learning Schools Mental Models Discussions 88

Lab to Class

MARCH 31, 2024

The researchers found that the style of drawing and mental model used to solve the problem was highly predictive of whether the student was able to find the faster way to solve the problem or not. A final, but not to be underestimated benefit may be that math class becomes more enjoyable for students as well.

Math 52

Math Mental Models Textbooks Study 52