Comments on: Blog Review of “Wild About Math” http://samjshah.com/2009/01/09/blog-review-of-wild-about-math/ Tue, 15 May 2012 22:49:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: samjshah http://samjshah.com/2009/01/09/blog-review-of-wild-about-math/#comment-688 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:35:56 +0000 http://samjshah.com/?p=915#comment-688 @Matt: first things first… I’m wearing you down!

But I have to say that I’m totally ignorant when it comes to the Nspire. I too have heard raves, but when it comes down to it, I’ve never played with it, and I haven’t yet seen what the range of capabilities it has.

My old department head is at a new school, which all the students have the Nspire, and he seems to LOVE it.

I’m reserving judgment until I can play around with one for a week. I’d love for TI to send me one to review, like they did with Sol at Wild About Math (hint hint, nudge, nudge, TI!).

]]> By: Matt E http://samjshah.com/2009/01/09/blog-review-of-wild-about-math/#comment-687 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:15:40 +0000 http://samjshah.com/?p=915#comment-687 I know this wasn’t the topic of this post, but what are your thoughts about / experiences with the TI-Nspire? I’ve heard raves, but I have some pretty strong Luddite tendencies when it comes to kids using hand-held technology. I’ve seen what the TI-8x’s have wrought on their ability to use their own brains. (I know, it’s not the technology itself, it’s how teachers have been using it, that being ubiquitously.) Were I to start using the Nspire in class, I think I would, for one, prohibit its use on almost all assessments.

… I really do need my own blog, don’t I. :-)

]]> By: samjshah http://samjshah.com/2009/01/09/blog-review-of-wild-about-math/#comment-686 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:35:12 +0000 http://samjshah.com/?p=915#comment-686 @Sol: Thanks. I figured I’d be at least a little analytic. I realized this sentence could have been misread

“Sol is uncharacteristic in that he was able to continually maintain the original intent of his blog for months, without giving into laziness or devolving into a forum for personal screeds”

I didn’t mean your blog was good for a few months and then turned lazy — but realized it could have been read as that! I wanted to get across that you succeeded in keeping up the original intent of your blog since you’ve started (although the content itself shifted more recently). So I modified that to say “for months (to the present!)”

]]> By: slederman http://samjshah.com/2009/01/09/blog-review-of-wild-about-math/#comment-683 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:30:51 +0000 http://samjshah.com/?p=915#comment-683 Sam – Excellent review. I appreciate your telling it like you see it. I’ll write a review of your site on my blog and I’ll address the points you raise.

Thanks.

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