Education 2.0 & 3.0

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

In a classroom at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, future teachers learn about patterns, angles, measurements and estimating – all by programming an animated cat to move along a computer screen.

It was a lesson in coding, and at a time of growing concerns about how math is taught to elementary-school children, educators at this campus in Oshawa, Ont., believe that it will help their teacher candidates become more fluent – and more comfortable – with mathematical concepts.

“Because of culture, because of education, a lot of teachers don’t come in with as much comfort with math as we would like. So how can we disrupt that? How can we get them thinking about problem-solving, all of that rich math we want them to learn, which is all built on foundations?” asked Diane Tepylo, an academic associate at the university, who teaches the coding course.

Via John Evans

Public education. Public good.

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)