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TED TALK -- Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover

Author/Presenter

Dan Meyer

Year
2010
Short Description

Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

Teaching Mathematics, Teaching Students, Teaching Mathematics to Students (Thompson, Miller)

Author/Presenter

Patrick Thompson

Christina Miller

Year
2009
Short Description

This session considers teachers’ transitions from teacher-centered mathematics to student-centered mathematics, including issues of meaning, coherence, and learnability, as well as the importance of working with colleagues.

Target Inquiry: Transforming In‐Service Teacher Professional Development and Instruction in High School Chemistry (Yezierski, Herrington)

Author/Presenter

Ellen Yezierski

Deborah Herrington

Year
2009
Short Description

This session presents results of a four-year longitudinal, mixed-methods study showing how Target Inquiry affects teacher beliefs, transforms teacher practice, and increases student achievement.

Standards in K-12 Tech Literacy & Engineering: Implications for Design & Research (Schunn)

Author/Presenter

Christian Schunn

Year
2009
Short Description

Join the panelists from the plenary presentation to continue conversations about common
standards in each of the STEM disciplines.

Resource(s)

ScratchEd: Working with Teachers to Develop Design-Based Learning Approaches to the Cultivation of Computational Thinking

Author/Presenter

Karen Brennan

Mitch Resnick

Year
2010
Short Description

In this poster, we describe the goals of our research, our proposed model for professional development, our framing of design-based approaches to learning, and our framing of computational thinking.

SciJourner Volume 2, Issue 2

The second print edition from academic year 2010-11 of our student written science news publication, in pdf format. This is meant to be printed on large format paper, and folded, but it can be viewed online.

Author/Presenter

SciJourners

Year
2010
Short Description

The second print edition from academic year 2010-11 of our student written science news publication, in pdf format. This is meant to be printed on large format paper, and folded, but it can be viewed online.

SciJourner Volume 2, Issue 1

The first print edition from academic year 2010-11 of our student written science news publication, in pdf format. This is meant to be printed on large format paper, and folded, but it can be viewed online.

Author/Presenter

SciJourners

Year
2009
Short Description

The first print edition from academic year 2010-11 of our student written science news publication, in pdf format. This is meant to be printed on large format paper, and folded, but it can be viewed online.