Ezra’s class has been learning about becoming an expert in something. Each student chose a topic and wrote a letter home to his or her parent asking for help in becoming an expert in their chosen area. Here’s Ezra’s letter.
They have also had a series of presentations from parents on being an expert at something — either work or hobby. Bruce signed up to do a presentation and went in last week to talk about how he became an expert in Information Theory. His first step was to talk about how important it is to be able to communicate with spacecraft. Case in point, the Millenium Falcon.
He showed them the receiver, too.
And, trying to spark a passion for math in at least a few of the students, he talked about how beautiful math is to a mathematician, using musical notes to a musician as an analogy. I’m not entirely sure they got the point, but I thought it was wonderful.
