Design Lessons to Include Current Events This morning a teacher in New York texted me excited about finding a website that uses real data to allow people to track the fire spreading each day. This week I was working with a college student using the math program ALEKS. One of the many frustrations I had with the program was the lack of “who cares.” The problems had fake contexts that students would not relate to. It’s hard for learning to be sticky when you don’t care about it. 2018 California Fire Tracker  Link to collaborative spreadsheet The Fall of Newspapers How...