Classroom Teaching

What if you don’t have enough whiteboards?

• Classroom Life

What if you don’t have enough whiteboards?

Maria Andersen 2 February 2012

Just a quick post to share this video from Betty Love (University of Nebraska – Omaha). Betty...

Read More

10 Things Our Kids WILL Worry About Thanks to the Information Revolution

• Digital Literacy

10 Things Our Kids WILL Worry About Thanks to the Information Revolution

Maria Andersen 20 December 2011

After reading this list of “10 Things our Kids will Never Worry About Thanks to the Information...

Read More

What does the classroom say?

• Classroom Life

What does the classroom say?

Maria Andersen 12 November 2011

Yesterday I had a short talk in the ITLC Themed Session called “Change the Classroom, Change the...

Read More

Hard-learned Tips on Screencasting

• eLearning

Hard-learned Tips on Screencasting

Maria Andersen 17 September 2011

My latest column for MAA Focus, Becoming a Screencasting Star, is now available online.  In this post,...

Read More

Delusional Hindsight and Academe

• Classroom Life

Delusional Hindsight and Academe

Maria Andersen 24 August 2011

In a previous post this week, I discussed optimism bias and student success in online classes. Optimism...

Read More

Where does learning happen?

• Future of Learning

Where does learning happen?

Maria Andersen 3 December 2010

There’s a great new TED Talk out today by Jason Fried (TEDxMidwest) called Why Work Doesn’t Happen...

Read More

Measuring Teaching and Learning in Mathematics

• Learning Analytics

Measuring Teaching and Learning in Mathematics

Maria Andersen 15 November 2010

This weekend at AMATYC I presented this Prezi presentation on How can we measure teaching and learning...

Read More

Help Students Pay Attention to Test Details

• Assessment

Help Students Pay Attention to Test Details

Maria Andersen 7 October 2010

Students lose SO many exam points because they just don’t read the directions and pay attention to...

Read More

ADA and Hyperlinks

• Classroom Teaching

ADA and Hyperlinks

Maria Andersen 17 August 2010

You know how sometimes you let a question linger in the background until one day you decide...

Read More

The Open Faculty

• Classroom Teaching

The Open Faculty

Maria Andersen 5 August 2010

I feel a little starstruck today.  I was asked to write an article about “Open Faculty” for...

Read More

Math ELITEs (Classrooms for Active Mathematics)

• Classroom Tech

Math ELITEs (Classrooms for Active Mathematics)

Maria Andersen 25 February 2010

Thanks to Diane, Gary, and Tom … who also contributed ideas to this classroom redesign project idea....

Read More

Student Conceptions of Mathematics

• Measuring Learning

Student Conceptions of Mathematics

Maria Andersen 6 January 2010

Do you ever get the feeling that you’re not making any real progress with your students?  Sure,...

Read More

WolframAlpha: Recalculating Teaching and Learning

• CAS

WolframAlpha: Recalculating Teaching and Learning

Maria Andersen 23 October 2009

For at least a decade, we have had the ability to let CAS software perform computational mathematics,...

Read More

How can we measure Teaching and Learning in Math?

• Assessment

How can we measure Teaching and Learning in Math?

Maria Andersen 12 October 2009

Last week I prepared a new presentation for the MichMATYC conference based partially on the literature review...

Read More

Transforming Math for Elementary Ed

• Classroom Life

Transforming Math for Elementary Ed

Maria Andersen 7 October 2009

After several months alone to think about why education has become so transactional, I decided that I’d...

Read More

eLearning Tools for STEM

• Calculators

eLearning Tools for STEM

Maria Andersen 6 October 2009

For anyone who has ever had trouble convincing your administration to give you the proper tools to...

Read More

Notesharing in the Digital Age

• Classroom Life

Notesharing in the Digital Age

Maria Andersen 14 September 2009

What do you see when you look out at your students?  Do you see them writing down...

Read More

Technology Skills We Should Be Teaching in College

• Digital Literacy

Technology Skills We Should Be Teaching in College

Maria Andersen 9 September 2009

This is a follow-up to my recent research about Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age.  I’ve...

Read More

Crowdsource Your Syllabus Presentation

• Classroom Life

Crowdsource Your Syllabus Presentation

Maria Andersen 2 September 2009

You know what I hate about the first day of class?  Going over the syllabus.  You know...

Read More

Online Course Design for Mathematics

• Communicating Math

Online Course Design for Mathematics

Maria Andersen 24 June 2009

This week I have been participating in the MAA PREP course, Calculus: Online and Interactive. I was...

Read More