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Math pedagogy-Are we giving kids credit for what they can do?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Roland O'Daniel Jul 14, 2010. 22 Replies 0 Likes
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Brad Wilson Aug 15, 2008. 2 Replies 0 Likes
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Linda Uselmann replied to Mark Benn's discussion 'Math pedagogy-Are we giving kids credit for what they can do?'
I added a couple of ideas based on the work of Carpenter and others at UW-Madison.
Mark Benn replied to Colleen Young's discussion 'Online whiteboards'
Check out Dabbleboard at www.dabbleboard.com. Students can collaborate through voice and video chat.
MariaD replied to Mark Benn's discussion 'Math pedagogy-Are we giving kids credit for what they can do?'
Thank you for the great overview-in-context, Tammy. I will drop you a line when we have something interesting happen with Cmaps. You have great ideas!
Tammy Moore replied to Mark Benn's discussion 'Math pedagogy-Are we giving kids credit for what they can do?'
Cmaps can do images within the nodes or in backgrounds. The math Cmaps don't have much need for images, so you probably didn't stumble across any with them in it.
Take a look at THIS collaborative Cmap for our online biology class. You…
MariaD replied to Mark Benn's discussion 'Math pedagogy-Are we giving kids credit for what they can do?'
I wanted to know if your son only did the map by himself, or if it was a part of some bigger project. It looks like you have a wealth of experience using maps with many classes and people. Thank you for sharing.
Hosting on a server seems great. I…
Tammy Moore replied to Mark Benn's discussion 'Math pedagogy-Are we giving kids credit for what they can do?'
Cmap is a software I would highly recommend. It is free and has either a server version which your school can set up so the kids can post their public maps school-wide or individual computer version which can be set up to keep the maps merely on…
MariaD replied to Mark Benn's discussion 'Math pedagogy-Are we giving kids credit for what they can do?'
Tammy, these are incredibly cool maps. I think I am going to start using ongoing concept maps with my long-time students. Thank you very much for sharing. Why did you son decide to work with concept maps like this?
I use "the rule of…
Nancy Bosch replied to Mark Benn's discussion 'Math pedagogy-Are we giving kids credit for what they can do?'
One thing I've found in our district, the focus since NCLB has been a 'one size fits all' curriculum with focus on struggling learners making progress on high stakes tests. With state testing over for the year, last quarter becomes a…
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- I grew up in St. Joseph, Michigan. I graduated from Western Michigan University in 1975 with a bachelors in music education. I then got a job with Sears, Roebuck and Co. as a manager and worked there for eleven years. I went back to school at Northern Michigan University and got my elementary education certification. I've been working as a teacher for 22 years. I have a wonderful wife of 34 years and 3 great children. I am a purple belt in the martial art of ATA Taekwondo. I am a podcaster on iTunes and have a monthly blog on subjects dealing with education in the classroom. In the summer I work as a historical interpreter for the Mackinac State Historic Parks.
Comment Wall (6 comments)
- At 6:40pm on February 18, 2009,
Frank said… - Mark - you got me on this site, but you haven't responded!!!
I have a new project for you...get back to me ASAP
Frank
- At 8:57pm on February 17, 2009,
Frank said…
- ok Mark I'm here. now what?
Frank Jr.
- At 6:18am on January 3, 2009,
Jack said… - Hi Mark!
Happy New Year! I was wondering if you or your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to. We'd really like to get more students involved from Michigan!
You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
- At 12:02pm on December 26, 2008,
marcotuts said… - Hi,
I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Marco Morales; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
Thanks,
Marco Morales
marcotuts@gmail.com
- At 8:00am on March 27, 2008,
kolson said… - Mark - I'm not an expert with the "hard" side of CR2.0/ning, but have you tried refreshing your screen after making the changes? If you still have problems, you could always post a question in the forum about this. Sorry I couldn't help more!
- At 3:48pm on March 22, 2008,
Hans Feldmeier said… - Hello Mark,
my greetings from Bavaria/Germany!
Please have a look at my group DigiSkills - the biggest one on CR 2.0
Hans
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