Monthly Archives: November 2008

my own experiences learning: part 2, TAing at MIT.

By nagle | Published: November 21, 2008
The other big experience that shaped how I view educational systems was being a TA at MIT. On the whole it was a really disheartening experience. I believe that is much harder and more worthwhile to construct a healthy system — be it educational or otherwise — than critique an existing, failing one, and so [...]
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my own experiences learning: part 1 — Germany.

By nagle | Published: November 17, 2008
Much of my views on learning and education were formed through two powerful learning experiences. They fully changed my mind as how I learn, how quickly I can learn, and how others learn. They helped me value one’s own intuition for how the learning process is going above and beyond any system or institution’s feedback. [...]
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quick thoughts on tutoring math

By nagle | Published: November 6, 2008
A friend of mine wrote me an email asking about my thoughts on teaching math. Having thought a lot about math (that’s what I did in college) and teaching, I’ve got lots of thoughts! Below is a simple summary of my broad thoughts on tutoring math. I’m also working on making an instructable of a bunch [...]
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