Today, I had the opportunity to be part of a panel at the Inter-County Broadband Network Community Anchor Symposium focused on the ICBN and Education (namely how the bandwidth made available by the ICBN project will impact K-12 and higher education). Dr. Darla Strouse, Executive Director for the Office of Partnerships and Development at the Maryland … Continue reading
When I presented at the CoSN conference, my mom and I were asked to do an interview on flipping the math classroom. Some background – I started flipping my AP Calculus AB class two years ago. Last year, I saw really good success and persuaded my mom (also a math teacher) to try it out … Continue reading
Continuing on our project in social media, my class watched Adam Savage’s TED-Ed talk: “How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries” In this activity, we started talking about: What is Curation? I found the following video helpful in getting the conversation flowing and ideas across. Savage’s video had some pretty high-level concepts in it – so … Continue reading
TED-Ed is TED’s newest initiative and the first phase was launched earlier this week (see my storify story). I work with a group of 9-12th grade students (very mixed skill level) and decided to do a unit focusing on social media. After the launch of TED-Ed, I got to thinking that maybe I could tie … Continue reading
CoSN Conference 2012 Reimagine Learning March 5-7, 2012 Omni Shoreham | Washington, DC I was invited to speak at the CoSN 2012 conference for their “Great Ideas Session – Visions of Transforming Education.” My session: What happens when learning is turned on its head? I spoke about how and why I started implementing the flipped … Continue reading
I had the inspiring, awesome, amazing experience to be invited out to the TEDActive conference! This week has been one of the most incredible experiences I’ve had in my life (so far). I can’t even begin to put in words what I’m feeling. I have never had such a busy week every — or met more … Continue reading
It’s official – Monday 1/30/12 has been declared World Flipped Class Open House Day :) Please take a look at the list of schools participating and think about taking a peak into one of the classrooms opening its doors to you. If you are interested in joining my AP Calculus AB class at Bullis School in Potomac, MD … Continue reading
I don’t read enough books. I’m addicted to my computer and spend way too many hours sucked into its grips. From news articles, to blogs, to twitter, to email … There is so much stuff out there, it’s so easy to get carried away. I would say I’m a bit addicted to learning (or just sucking in new information … Continue reading
We took a day in class to make videos to review for the chapter test again! The students love this activity. This time around, I asked students to choose to create a video for the problem they thought most difficult. Their homework assignment for the night before creating the video was to prepare themselves so … Continue reading
First trimester introduction to programming was amazing! My class was so interested in everything that I taught them. They wanted to learn what I wanted to teach them – and then some. I decided to use Scratch to begin things (for about 2 months). The student had no prior programming experience at all. Most of my students were sophomores. … Continue reading
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