I’m presenting at the First GeoGebra North America Conference this morning
Posted on July 27th, 2010 by joel
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GeoGebra NA 2010
Using Technology to Teach Mathematics
Today I am presenting Using Technology Effectively to Teach Mathematics at the Utah Association of Math Teacher Educators annual meeting being held at Utah State University.
Posted on March 6th, 2010 by joel
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Encouraging the creation of assessments to measure deep understanding
I had the chance to talk with David Yaron again about how to generate more and better assessments that get at deeper levels of knowledge than what typical assessments do. I didn’t realize this but, Turadg, whose presentation I attended is one of David’s students. I shared my reaction to Turadg’s study with David: in [...]
Posted on November 19th, 2009 by joel
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ATE – A sister program to NSF
Rachel Bower – Internet Scout Wisconson Madison, ATE Central, AMSER. Advanced Technological Education is a sister program to NSDL. Designed to connect NSDL with community and technical college faculty. Instead of focusing on a content area, they chose to focus on an audience and to cover all of applied math and science. AMSER is being [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by joel
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per central – Conference services as a sustainability model
Lyle Barbato, the comPADRE lead developer talked about conference services as a model for sustainability. Each collection in comPADRE is focused around supporting existing community or a particular course. Teachers, Courses, Specific Students, Specific faculty. They offer workshops etc to those communities. The Physics Education Research community has existed since the 60s. It has grown [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by joel
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Open Source Physics – Adoptable, Adaptable, and Understandable – Power to the people
Bruce Mason – Open Source Physics. Modern Physics is done with computation no matter whether you are a theoretical or experimental. Our current classroom practice doesn’t allow with this well. A tri-partrate learning platform. Their project combines Open Source Physics, Easy Java Simulation, and the Compadre Library.
Modeling is important because it is what scientists do. [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by joel
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90-9-1 principle – getting people to contribute
Dan Garcia is charged with motivating users to participate. 90-9-1 principle. 90% of users are audience, 9% of users are editors, 1% of users are creators. Creators are not representative of who the community is. Cites alertbox/participation_ Nielson research about 90% of postings come from 1% of the users. We want to reward participants for [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by joel
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Remixing web content
Lois Delcambre is talking about the new ensemble portal and the CS1 project being motivated by the CSTA. There is an intellectual debate about what you should use to introduce people to computer science. Their community site is intended to promote discussion. The site uses drupal as a platform. They have added their own content [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by joel
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Modeling users to provide recommendations
Frank Shipman has worked for years on a Interest Profile Manager (IPM) that runs locally on a users’s computer. They model users based on 3 sources: (1) interaction with their knowledge browser, (2) browser history, and (3). They are starting a new project to explore pooling individual models to community models while anonymizing the data. [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by joel
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Fostering Learning in the Networked Role – The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge
I’m listening to Arlene De Strulle, Bruce Mason, Kimberly Lightle, Cathy Manduca, Darrell Porcello in the opening panel at the NSDL annual meeting.
Dr. De Strulle is talking about the report Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge.
Highlights of the report:
Crossdisciplinary approach – use
Platform perspective – adopt & integrate with [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by joel
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