[Edu-sig] another edu-sig page textbook (suggesting to AR)

[Maria Droujkova]

The "coolness" factor has to be there, for everybody. The
forms/representations/approaches can be adapted to your audience,
but...


>
> That's smart pedagogy by the way.  As soon as you call it "remedial"
> you've proved you're not a smart teacher, as you've saddled students
> with a label that works against them.
>
> So many colleges and universities fall into the trap of offering
> "remedial" this and that -- not so smart as Princeton, which would
> call it "Python for Thespians" or something (and it wouldn't be a lie
> -- Princeton big into theater, always has been).
>

I finally tracked down that "Simpsons" quote. The episode, called "You
can only move twice," places Bart into a remedial class:

Teacher: Okay. Now, everyone take out your safety pencil and a circle of
         paper. This week, I hope we can finish our work on the letter
         "A".
   Bart: Let me get this straight. We're behind the rest of our class
         and we're going to catch up to them by going slower than they
         are?  [making "crazy" gesture]  Cuckoo.
   Kids: [imitating him]  Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo.


Cheers,
MariaD

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