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1. SIMIODE Director's Blog - The Learning Curve - Tips to Learn Something New

   Entry #4646

   24 Dec 2023

   1:40 am

   Brian Winkel

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   The Learning Curve - Tips to Learn Something New In a 2016  issue of the Indiana University Alumni Magazine (Summer 2016, p. 40) the following good advice is offered and we share it with you here. This comes in a piece on teaching violin at the world class Jacobs School of Music at IU....

2. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Fitting It All In

   Entry #4645

   24 Dec 2023

   12:27 am

   Brian Winkel

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   Fitting it all in – Curriculum Crunch or Not! We recently re-examined the 3" by 5" feedback cards we collected from attendees at our JMM 2016 SIMIODE Open House and we share them and our thoughts with you. Under the theme "Issues to Overcome" we found the...

3. SIMIODE Director's Blog - What Do You Do on the First Day of Class?

   Entry #3810

   19 Nov 2023

   7:38 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   What do you do on the first day of class? Some time ago, I invited my son, Doan Winkel, to share what he does in his Entrepreneurship class on the first day of class. Doan is The John J. Kahl, Sr., Chair in Entrepreneurship, at John Carroll University in Cleveland Heights OH USA.  Here...

4. SIMIODE Director's Blog - The Real Meaning of What We Produce and Do

   Entry #3809

   19 Nov 2023

   7:30 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   The real meaning of what we produce and do Several years ago, when we were living in New York,  my wife and I attended a lecture performance on Dimitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 as a part of the “What Makes It Great” series offered by Rob Kapilow at the Merkin...

5. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Intellectual Mathematics - Now There's a Grabber Title

   Entry #3759

   17 Nov 2023

   2:49 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   Intellectual Mathematics - Now There's a Grabber Title Intellectual Mathematics is a website written and run by Viktor Blåsjö of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has a keen sense of what should be important in teaching undergraduate mathematics.  He has a Blog with...

6. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Transforming Higher Education without Tears

   Entry #3758

   17 Nov 2023

   2:47 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   Transforming Higher Education without Tears At www.threejoy.com  David E. Goldberg of Therapy Associates wrote about Normal and Deep Transformative Change. The Normal change column we all know and have been practicing. However, the Deep Transformative Change Column is really that, namely,...

7. SIMIODE Director's Blog - College Is Not for Learners

   Entry #3757

   17 Nov 2023

   2:43 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   College Is Not for Learners In a very interesting and disturbing post at The Coffeelicious web site Tyler O'Briant posts a four minute read article that will really  make you think. Check it out. In the piece Tyler says, "I’m studying engineering out of genuine interest and...

8. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Let Go and Take Risks

   Entry #3756

   17 Nov 2023

   2:40 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   Let Go and Take Risks "Let go and take risks."  Advice we give our students on occasion, advice our parents suggested to us (sometimes in frustration and with anxiety), and advice we need to take ourselves. As professors we are always doing just that, "professing." This...

9. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Biking into Trees

   Entry #3755

   17 Nov 2023

   2:38 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   Biking into Trees A few years back we got news from SIMIODE member, Tim Pennings. He  is the author of a way cool and famous, indeed iconic, article,  “Do dogs know calculus?” about his little dog Elvis which was published in the College Mathematics Journal in 2003 (34(3):...

10. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Mindfulness at Work

    Entry #3753

    17 Nov 2023

    2:36 pm

    Brian Winkel

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    Mindfulness at Work In a helpful piece entitled "Achieving Mindfulness at Work, No Meditation Cushion Required," in the New York Times, Job Market section of 24 April 2016, Matthew E. May suggests that we can do just that and furthermore it will make us a better contributor at work and...

11. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Checking Out What Is on the Other Side of the Fence

    Entry #3752

    17 Nov 2023

    2:31 pm

    Brian Winkel

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    Checking Out What Is on the Other Side of the Fence As I wander the internet looking for colleagues who are doing modeling in differential equations I stumble upon lots, I mean lots, of peripheral or related materials. One type of material is what I would call review material or prep...

12. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Mathematics Grips the World Through Differential Equations.

    Entry #3751

    17 Nov 2023

    2:29 pm

    Brian Winkel

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    Mathematics grips the world through differential equations. Andrew Gleason, that wonderful member of our mathematics community, who taught at Harvard for so many years and led the successful calculus reform effort said, "Mathematics grips the world through differential equations." Dan...

13. SIMIODE Director's Blog - High School Does Not Have to Be That Bad

    Entry #3750

    17 Nov 2023

    2:26 pm

    Brian Winkel

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    High School Does Not Have to Be Boring In a 30 March 2019 New York Times Opinion piece entitled, "High School Does Not Have to Be Boring," Jal Mehta, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Sarah Fine, who runs a teacher preparation program at the...

14. SIMIODE Director's Blog - The Wisdom of Willie Nelson

    Entry #3452

    23 Oct 2023

    12:21 am

    Brian Winkel

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    The Wisdom of Willie Nelson In spending time on FaceBook I found the following quote from Willie Nelson, the great American country and rock and roll musician, “If you can be content right now, then you’ll always be content, because it’s always right now.” When I was...

15. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Wish I Did Not Know Now What I Didn't Know Then

    Entry #3451

    23 Oct 2023

    12:19 am

    Brian Winkel

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    Wish I Did Not Know Now What I Didn't Know Then We were in a "saloon" restaurant in Grand Marais MI USA recently when the juke box started to play a song whose refrain and title were "Wish I Didn't Know Now What I Didn't Know Then." It was sung by the country...

16. SIMIODE Director's Blog - This says it all - student feedback

    Entry #3450

    23 Oct 2023

    12:12 am

    Brian Winkel

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    This says it all - student feedback Just rediscovered this from an old web site for a course, Math in the City, at University of Nebraska home page. Most important line under Student Feedback: "I liked the fact that we didn't know what we were capable of doing until we did...

17. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Purpose of education is to change what you believe

    Entry #3449

    23 Oct 2023

    12:10 am

    Brian Winkel

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    Purpose of education is to change what you believe. Brandon Busteed, Chief Partnership Officer and Global Head of Learn-Work Innovation interviewed Daniel Kahneman (whose name you have been hearing lots with respect to role of AI) and posted his reaction to what Kahneman said, namely “The...

18. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Asking Questions

    Entry #3448

    23 Oct 2023

    12:07 am

    Brian Winkel

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    Asking Questions Under the story title, “The Power of ‘Why?’ and ‘What If?’” Warren Berger writes in The New York Times  on 2 July 2016 about the importance of asking questions. In talking to a senior manager, she told him, “They were smart,...

19. SIMIODE Director's Blog - What's In Your Learning?

    Entry #3447

    23 Oct 2023

    12:01 am

    Brian Winkel

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    What’s in your learning Years ago, close to our founding time of 2013 at our SIMIODE Staff Meeting held at SIMIODE World Headquarters (the dining room table at our home in Cornwall NY USA) I had shared with SIMIODE’s two technical directors, Leigh Noble and Mark Tourtellott, some...

20. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Power Series Solution - LLC and Textbook

    Entry #3446

    22 Oct 2023

    3:24 pm

    Brian Winkel

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    From time to time we get information about new ventures. Recently,  Jim Sochacki (sochackipowerseriessolutions@gmail.com), President/ Owner of Power Series Solution, LLC, at http://ps-solns.com/ shared with us news of  a new textbook, Applying Power Series to...