Okay.. it's taken me since September but this was the first math class of my Grade 9s where I was convinced that they 'got it'. Not in terms of the math content; these kids are pretty bright. But rather in terms of how one learns math, how they collaborate, share, discuss, conjecture, disagree, check, etc. It was amazing. And, as we were closing down, they made commentary that showed they noticed it too. Finally. I'm recording this so that when it doesn't work, I'll remember. And when a parent complains that I'm not "teaching" because I didn't tell them what to do, I'll have a happy place to go to :)
Taking a brief break from my "Getting Started with OneNote Class Notebook" series (you can start that one here )... This is a little advanced so if you're not comfortable setting permissions inside of Office365 you may want to avoid this. Or set up a Class Notebook to play with so that it doesn't affect any existing Class Notebooks. Yeah, the latter is a good option. One of the great powers of OneNote is that you can do some really neat permissioning of the Section Tabs. When the Notebook is created, of course, it gives you an "open permissions" on the Collaboration Space and student-read-only on the Content Library. And then each student space is wide open to each individual student. But we've found that occasionally you want to mix up the permissions a little. For example, you could create a space in a student section for your private notes that the student couldn't see, or maybe you want a tab in the Collaboration Space that students cou
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