#EduDuctTape S03-E049

Episode Notes Available at: jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-49

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Today's Guest: Robert Kaplinsky
- Robert has been an educator since 2003 as a classroom teacher, teacher specialist, instructor for the UCLA, and presenter at conferences around the world. He's the author of Open Middle Math: Problems That Unlock Student Thinking and created the #ObserveMe movement. He's also the founder and president of Grassroots Workshops.
- Contact Info: @robertkaplinsky on Twitter, @robert_kaplinsky on Instagram, @robertkaplinsky on Facebook, robertkaplinsky.com, openmiddle.com, grassrootsworkshops.com, robert@robertkaplinsky.com

2 Truths & 1 Lie
Educational Duct Tape Question: "How do I teach mathematical problem solving digitally?"
- "We are coming from a position where we have always taught it without technology, we should give ourselves a lot of grace."
- In-N-Out burger question
  - Find similar problems at robertkaplinsky.com/lessons
- Desmos Activity Builder for a real-world problem
  - Desmos has pre-built classroom activities, as well as the "Activity Builder" for making your own.
  - Use drag-and-drop editing to add content to an interactive slide deck (text boxes, sketches, graphs, etc.)
  - Slides can be oneway (providing info to students) or interactive (text questions, drag-and-drop, sketch, card sorts, etc.)
  - Can see an overlay view that is similar to what Pear Deck offers
  - Teacher.desmos.com
  - Desmos Marbleslides
  - Desmos can anonymize student names and freeze student screens
  - Sliders let students explore elements of problems, patterns, and graphs (for example, changing the m or b in y=mx + b)
- "A lot of the way that we value mathematics in the United States is on getting the right answers quickly and efficiently. As a teacher, I was really good at creating math robots who could get the answers, but really didn't know what they were talking about."
- Focus on real-world problem-solving in mathematics → mathematical modeling
- "It's easy to enter into, but challenging to master and that, I think, is very satisfying in general."
- Open Middle Math
  - Find problems on https://www.openmiddle.com/
  - Learn why educators' like Open Middle problems at #WhyOpenMiddle
  - Open Middle - "Want the Google Slides?"
    - Asynchronous use of the Google Slides - a separate set of slides for each kid, but that makes it more difficult to observe their work
    - Synchronous - collaborative Google Slides
    - Level up - Google Slides with Pear Deck
      - The video of Robert using Pear Deck with an Open Middle problem is in this workshop.
      - or The Answer Pad
- Open Middle with Desmos Activity Builder
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect - "The more that you learn, the more that you realize you don't know."
The Celebration of the Adjacent Possible
- Apple Podcast Review from Jated Bubbsy
- #EduDuctTape Flipgrid Question from Andrew Nikola
  - microphones that I mentioned:
    - Samson Q2U Handheld Dynamic
    - Audio-Technica ATR2100
    - Audio-Technica ATR2100x
    - Blue Snowball
    - Blue Yeti
    - Rode

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