Ten Special Interest Groups (SIGs) met at the 2009 DR-K12 PI Meeting to discuss common interests and challenges as well as possible areas for future collaobration and work. The CADRE website will offer virtual space for these SIGs to form ongoing working groups.
Winter brings cold temperatures to the Northern Hemisphere, leading us to consider ways to keep warm. In the polar regions, this question is important year-round! In this issue, explore physical science concepts, such as heat, conductors, and insulation, and apply this knowledge to the animals and people in the Arctic and Antarctica. Explore adaptations and behaviors through hands-on science lessons, informational text, and Readers Theater scripts. Use formative assessment and discrepant events to target student misconceptions about heat.
The Ubiquitous Learning Conference investigates the uses of technologies in learning, including devices with sophisticated computing and networking capacities which are now pervasively part of our everyday lives’ from laptops to mobile phones, games, digital music players, personal digital assistants and cameras. The Conference explores the possibilities of new forms of learning using these devices not only in the classroom, but in a wider range of places and times than was conventionally the case for education.
Planned launch of the CADRE website.
The EDC IT Department will host two (2) events focused on Online Meetings and Webinars. Both events will be simulcast using the brand new Adobe Connect Seminar Room - a freely available resource for all EDC projects beginning December 10.
