Snow and Global Climate: An Online Course to Facilitate Scientist and Teacher Collaboration

Climate Change
Cyberlearning
Educational Technology
Science
Teachers
Middle School
High School
Post-secondary Faculty
Course
Day
Thu

Investigations in Cyber-enabled Education presents an online course designed to facilitate collaboration between scientists and teachers. Participants will explore and provide feedback on course products. Please bring your laptop to participate. Participant limit: 20

Date/Time
-
Session Type
Product Feedback Session
Presenters
Kathy Berry Bertram
Session Materials
Bertram_PPT.ppt

This session will showcase and solicit feedback on a prototype online learning community designed to facilitate collaboration between teachers and scientists. A team of scientists and education researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute developed the learning community as part of the Investigations in Cyber-enabled Education (ICE) Program, a DR K–12 program. The unique learning community is the central component of an online course for secondary teachers.

How Can Tools for Teachers Foster High-leverage Classroom Discourse and Assessment Practices

Assessment
Discourse
Adaptation
Teachers
Day
Thu

Presenters will enlist audience’s help to expand their thinking about how a suite of Web-based tools that support ambitious forms of science teaching might be adapted for use beyond current research contexts and in more innovative ways. Classroom video of tool-supporting teaching will be shown. 

Date/Time
-
Session Type
Product Feedback Session
Presenters
Mark Windschitl
Stamatis Vokos
Session Materials
Windschitl_PPT.pptx
Windschitl_Beginners Repertoire.pdf

How can tools for teachers foster high-leverage classroom discourse and assessment practices?

Analyzing Early Algebra Learning Progressions for Grades 3-8

Algebra
Mathematics
Elementary School
Middle School
Learning Progression
Day
Thu

This session will critically examine conjectured Early Algebra Learning Progressions for grades 3–8 for coherence, alignment, and completeness.

Date/Time
-
Session Type
Product Feedback Session
Presenters
Maria Blanton
Eric Knuth
Session Materials
Blanton_PPT.ppt

This session will critically examine conjectured Early Algebra Learning Progressions for grades 3–8 for coherence, alignment, and completeness.

A Model for Interactive, Web-based Curricula to Support Responsive Teaching and Student Inquiry in Elementary Science Classrooms

Curriculum
Science
Elementary School
Curriculum
Day
Thu

Session participants will explore and discuss a beta version of an interactive, Web-based, curricular environment designed to facilitate responsive teaching and students’ science inquiry.

Date/Time
-
Session Type
Product Feedback Session
Presenters
Janet Coffey
David Hammer

The presenters of this session seek feedback on the design and feasibility of an interactive, Web-based  curriculum environment that aims to support responsive teaching and elementary students' science inquiry. Session participants will explore and discuss a beta version of an interactive, Web-based,  curriculum environment designed to facilitate responsive teaching and students’ science inquiry.

References

Resource mentioned during the presentation:

Promoting Inquiry web site: http://cipstrends.sdsu.edu/car_module/

New Web-based Tools to Help Students (and Teachers) Who Find STEM Content Challenging

Educational Technology
Mathematics
Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Universal Design
Digital Media
Day
Thu

Participants will be asked to view and discuss free tools that Dynabook and SmartGraphs are developing. These Web-based tools link multiple visual representations and allow immediate feedback to teachers and students.

Date/Time
-
Session Type
Product Feedback Session
Presenters
Susan Courey
Andrew Zucker
Jose Blackorby
Session Materials
Zucker_PPT.pdf
Courey_PPT.ppt

The capabilities of interactive, Web-based media offer approaches that can be especially valuable to students and teachers who find STEM content challenging to learn. Through the lenses of both general education and special education, the presenters are designing new products to be effective for all teachers and students. Web-based tools link multiple visual representations and allow immediate feedback to teachers and students. See and discuss free tools that Dynabook and SmartGraphs are developing.

Dinner Meeting

Day
Wed

Joan Ferrini-Mundy will welcome DR K-12 grantees and focus on the important work of their project teams. She will discuss the strategic vision for NSF and the Directorate, and the role that DR K-12 projects have in that vision.

Welcome Remarks: Spud Bradley, DR K-12 Program Officer, National Science Foundation; Elizabeth VanderPutten, DR K-12 Cluster Coordinator, National Science Foundation; Barbara Brauner Berns, CADRE PI, Education Development Center, Inc.

Date/Time
-
Session Type
Plenary
Presenters
Joan Ferrini-Mundy
Sue Allen
Session Materials
Allen_Ferrini-Mundy_PPT.pptx

Poster Session

Day
Wed

Featuring 2010 awardees' posters and product showcase presenters. COMING SOON: See the Poster List of projects presenting.

Date/Time
-
Session Type
General Poster Session
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