Out In Left Field

Sunday, November 20, 2022

Fund what you know, redux

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When funders fund stuff we know better than they do, it's painful to think of the opportunity costs. Stuff I know includes math and lite...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

Crowds vs. herds, redux

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I was delighted to re-discover this old post. In the age of social media--and in light of everything  Jonathan Haidt has observed about wha...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Computer programming-- an optimal pedagogy

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It has long struck me that the most suitable courses for online learning are programming courses. Not only that, but programming itself prov...
Sunday, November 13, 2022

Thoughts on Relevance: How much relevance is relevant?

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I was reminded of this old post when hearing about a poor grade an autistic student earned for the "personal connections" response...
Friday, November 11, 2022

How to teach subtraction without linguistic barriers

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An ancient post from Out in Left Field, relevant to Students with Autism . How to teach subtraction without linguistic barriers T oo often, ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Is there really nothing inherently atypical about language development in autism? Part II

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 Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org . Following up on my previous post on the FC-friendly claim in Gernsbacher, Morson & Grace...
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Monday, November 7, 2022

Common Core-inspired grammar fallacies, and why we need paper graders

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I was just talking with an AI professor at a Halloween party, and he told me that he now requires his students to run all their papers throu...
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Katharine Beals
Katharine Beals, PhD, is the author of "Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World: Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Home and at School" (Shambhala/Trumpeter) Katharine is an educator and the mother of three left-brain children. She has taught math, computer science, social studies, expository writing, linguistics, and English as a second language to students of all ages, both in the U.S. and overseas. She is also the architect of the GrammarTrainer, a linguistic software program for language impaired children. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and an adjunct professor at the Drexel University School of Education.
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