Scott

Scott's Page __Monday June 27th__

__Rethinking the Math Classroom__

Teacher developed podcasts to cover the lessons. His class is the normal struggling students, who in some classes are two weeks behind while they can be 2 weeks ahead in his class.

A typical day involves him coming in and starting with a question session to determine understanding of yesterdays home work. The students are responsible for watching and taking notes on the podcast before coming to class to complete the assignment. He is then able to go around and help the students who may not have understood the concept as well as others. When he has a concept that is going to be a little more difficult he will teach a quick mini-lesson. He uses keynote to create the podcast and then adds in his voice after.

Ideas for use: MG, JS, and SB could split these up and try to create lessons especially for concepts that we need to typically re-teach. We could use this for self paced classes, assisted classes (to break the groups up), and for the resource period.

This REALLY seems like a great idea to split the work. I’ll bet right now you can identify what you typically have to reteach. - Di

__Ignite Interest in STEM with Digital Media and Video Games__

[|__stemchallenge.org__]  has a site documenting the National STEM Video Game Challenge. This is a sponsored competition where students are challenged to design original video games. This is a contest that is available to middle school students.

The site to get more information is [|__www.gamestarmechanic.com__]

__Math Snacks__

Free website but most things are on a flash. You need to do a download of the mathsnacks player to the ipad.

Demonstrated free games on their site that first would help number sense. Using a game called Pearl Diver you work on placing numbers on a number line. It uses fractions, decimals, and integers.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Also got a tip to check out <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.sumdog.com__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Google Teaching Schedule__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the Exposition Hall Google is presenting some good presentations on their products. Here is the schedule for the next 2 days:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:45Google tools for Professional Development <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10:15Using Google Earth in the Classroom <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10:45Digital Citizenship <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11:15 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Google to the Max by Howie DiBlasi__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He presented and wide range of options to use from google. Unfortunately he ran through them at light speed simply presenting the sites to look at. He gave his email so Brian has emailed him which should get us a copy of his presentation.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">word lens by quest <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b00ae; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jerome Burg <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.googlelittrips.org__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b00ae; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">/

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Barrett was mentioned as a good source for many math documents on google.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Tuesday, June 28th__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Every Day Math Workout__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter went through the use of a smartboard and the tools available to help with math understanding. They have the triangle flashcards that students could use. Possibly something we could incorporate into our daily math fact on the daily announcements.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They have tools for skip counting, games using facts, many dice games for facts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Add to 10 game where they shoot at balls in order to knock out multiples of ten.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This was more of a lower grade level presentation, but has some real benefits for our students who struggle with facts. Perhaps we could use a smartboard during the resource period to help our students who do not know their facts. Instead of going over flashcards, which they are bored with, we could set up the smartboard as a room where some students could go to play games to help them.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Turning your Boring Lesson into a Fun and Engaging Game__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What does it take to create a game/ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__outcomes__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">prior knowledge needed, what do they learn, know what after <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__instructions__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">how do they learn, how long does it take, what if they forget the rules <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__pace/timing__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">how fast or slow, turn-based or real time, who goes first, how long does it take to play <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__controls__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">what do they control and how <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__story__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__achievements__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">big goals little goals, rewards, punishments, breadcrumbs <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__endgame__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">final outcome?, win or lose, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Assessment__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">how do you know who wins, can everyone win or lose, how do games assess, measuring performance

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">url: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://tinyurl.com/4yku9hg__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teams worked online in real time that we could watch what they are doing.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Math 2.0 The Dynamic Classroom__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is Math 2.0 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1 Dynamic math software <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Algebra: best is spreadsheets like excel or ggogle docs <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Geometry: sketchpad or geogebra <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Microworlds

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Web 2.0 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reading and Writing <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Connecting with others <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaborating <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Publishing <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Making Waves <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math Learning Communities <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Networked Brick & Mortar <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Home Schooling <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online and Virtual <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Education in the Clouds <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math 2.0 Elluminate

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Need a “Wanna Do” curriculum not a “hafta do”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An App for a dynamic classroom? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Domains1.02.0__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resourcessketchpadgeogbra, google docs, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">spreadsheetsapplets

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Curriculumtextbook

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Environment

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teaching and Learning

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessing

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.clime.org__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and go to the agenda

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://web.mac.com/ihor12/iste11/math2.0.final.pdf__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> site for the presentation