Blog Summary for C4T #1

#1 My first blog to read by Karl Fisch was "Math on the Rocks: Skyping with Professor Garibaldi". This post was about Mr. Fisch getting in touch with Professor Garibaldi about skyping with his class. Professor Garibaldi uses math for out in the world things such as rock climbing. Mr.Fisch thought it would be a good idea to have Professor Garibaldi skype with his class about using math/learning in the real world. Mr. Fisch came up with questions to ask the professor, and he had a few very good points on why he wanted to do this with his students. The points were to show students when they will actually have to use math, have someone who is passionate about math/learning to get them more excited about it, and to expose the students to professionals with a variety of different backgrounds.

In my comment, to Mr. Fisch, I told him that I thought this was an excellent idea. I think this would help a lot of students to have a real world example by a real world person. It would be very beneficial for students to have this experience with teachers,such as Professor Garibaldi, and I think more teachers should think this way about reaching out to their students.

#2 Dear Denver Post - You're the Disappointment by Karl Fisch was an excellent blog post! The Denver Post wrote an article called “Back In Action”. The article had an awful comment about school.

Summer is almost over, and the disappointment about returning to class . . .

With that being said, Mr. Fisch wrote about his opinion on this horrible article. He said that many of us are excited about school and that is very true. For most of us school has already started; students and teachers alike are ready to get back to school. Though a lot of students won’t admit it and they may not be ready for everything about school, but they are excited for school in general. Fisch said in his town they have a great community, great teachers, great students and they are doing important things with everyone. For example, football season is here and everyone comes together for that. With all that said the Denver Post still writes an article about school being a disappointment!! Fisch was very upset about the article.

My comment to Fisch was that I completely agreed! He has the right to be angry with such an awful article. When I was in high school I always looked forward to going back to school. The Denver Post apparently doesn’t remember what is like to be apart of a school. They need to wake up and realize that the article they posted needs to reevaluated!