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In
September, 2023, I joined the Creative Writing class at
the Culver City Senior Center. My instructor is also
a professor at OTIS College of Art and Design where she
offers a required course called True Stories. A team of
art students interviews someone and then do an art project
based on the person’s life. I was asked to be a subject,
and the student project was presented May 4, 2024. The
final exam is a presentation which you can watch here and
creation of a wonderful book which you can download and read here.
2008 organized and chaired the first Culver City math tournament, now called the E=MC2 Excellence in Mathematics Culver City Tournament. The 17th annual Tournament will be held April 13, 2024, with 180 Mathletes on 36 teams participating from over from 30 Los Angeles Countywide elementary schools.
One of the
workshop participants nicknamed the book, The Big
Yellow Book.
Summer
2020
faced with the reality of online school year, with the
help of former students and coaches. we developed a
model using middle and high school students as
facilitators for math enrichment for the elementary
students in breakout rooms on Zoom. The model is
explained in this video.
2020-2021 created and coordinated Zoom Math Clubs at all five CCUSD elementary schools involving about 150 4th and 5th grade students, 10 parent coaches and 30 7th – 12th grade facilitators. To support the parents and facilitators, I produced several instructional videos posted on YouTube. We had two successful Zoom based math tournaments. Here is our Math Cheer! Feedback: “It was great fine fun!”
2021-2022
coordinated
Zoom Math Olympiad clubs at three Culver City elementary
schools with about 60 mathletes, a few parents and a
dozen 7th – 12th grade facilitators. Also provided
support to schools with in-person clubs. Chaired the
15th Annual E=MC2 tournament as a
multi-school hybrid-Zoom event. Twenty-six
teams from 11 schools participated with teams meeting at
their home school Zooming in for the individual and team
events.
2022
– 2023 Re-established
in-person
Math Clubs at all five CCUSD schools including coach
training workshops. Chaired the 16th Annual E=MC2 tournament as in
person event. Conducted an series of Introduction
to CGI for Parents at two CCUSD elementary schools.
2023
– 2024 Established Culver City district-wide Sunday math
enrichment program focusing on complex math
problem-solving for 4th and 5th graders facilitated by
high school assistant coaches. Chaired the 17th Annual
E=MC2 tournament.
Joined a writing class and the January 30, 2024 writing
prompt was, “What decade would you like to be living in
and what would you like to be doing?” I was surprised
and delighted
by what I wrote, and hope you
are too!
Spring 2024: Teaching via Zoom and making my videos crystallized many of the ideas in the Big Yellow Book and motivated me to revise and build on those ideas. My goal is to complete a new manuscript focusing on the importance of teaching students how to unpack a problem, and the critical role of learning from mistakes.
Retirement could not be more fun!!!
The most challenging research question I investigated was in the 1990s with the introduction of the personal computer and subsequent tsunami of data and information flooding an individual: How could one learn to manage all this information? My 1998 paper Personal Knowledge Management: Who? What? Why? Where? When? How? addressed this issue. The paper is cited on Wikipedia in the History and Background crediting me as the originator of the term!
My primary
research area was tracking the introduction and impact of
computer technology in the university environment, as
reflected in Annual UCLA Survey of
Business School Computing Usage conducted between 1980 and
1999. This research was the motivation for so many
invitations to speak at conferences and schools around the
world.
