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Eric Byers

STEM - Flipping the classroom - 4 views

What an awesome idea. It completely rethinks everything about how the traditional classroom is supposed to work. Just the chance to give more lab time in the classroom is worth trying this let al...

Teaching technologies stem Resources web

started by Stephen Demoratz on 26 May 12 3 follow-ups, last by Eric Byers on 28 May 12
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Stephen Demoratz

Monday's assignment - I am posting here in case I cannot access Lore. - 8 views

I like that Comcast is doing that. many people feel that internet access should be run almost like a public utility (water, electric) to ensure it can reach all that need it. What was a brilliant,...

TPACK Technology stem science technologies web Engineering Teaching Innovation Resources

started by Stephen Demoratz on 11 Jun 12 4 follow-ups, last by Stephen Demoratz on 19 Jun 12
Eric Byers

IDEA " You make me sick! Online game teaches science to middle schoolers - 1 views

www.idea.org/...es-science-to-middle-schoolers

Innovation Resources Technology science Anatomy Biology

shared by Eric Byers on 28 May 12 - No Cached
  • Eric Byers on 28 May 12
     
    One of the newest and greatest innovations continues to be video games. In the past, educational games have never quite met expectations, but with grants and contests such as this one, hopefully the games improve and students can learn something while playing video games.
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  • Tristan C on 28 May 12
     
    Wow! This game is very informative and fun. I'm interested to see more games like this. There are way too many educational games that aren't enjoyable. This one hits the mark!
  • C. Keith Claassen on 28 May 12
     
    This looks like a great tool for kids today- especially considering how attached some kids are to games. Children need to know how they get sick and what is going on inside of them when they are sick. One concern I have is that the game may be giving the message that all bacteria are bad and will make them sick. This is a common misconception that has led to the over use of antibiotics and hand sanitizer. Children should be taught that although some bacteria are pathogens, most are not, and they actually help other animals (ie. Humans) carry out every day functions. Bacteria ≠ Pathogen.
  • Stephen Demoratz on 30 May 12
     
    About four years ago, I went to a facility planners conference and they said the most improperly used space in the school is the library. It should not be filled with stacks of books, but it should look more like a media center where you have gaming centers, areas for public wi-fi access and a small section for books, but it would not be the dominant feature of the media center. It would also not close with the school, but be an area that would be open to the general public after hours. We will probably not build another school in Spotsylvania in the next decade, but it will be interesting to see if divisions will be starting to convert what we currently see as a library into something else.
Dipali Patel

TPACK Framework - 2 views

www.youtube.com/watch

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shared by Dipali Patel on 01 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Dipali Patel on 01 Jun 12
     
    Great video that explains the concepts of TPACK in a more simplistic manner. I think is does a great job of showing how not integrating such a model could harm our current/future learners- learners of the 21st century.
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  • Dipali Patel on 01 Jun 12
     
    Favorite Line: "integrating these three knowledge areas is a WICKED problem ( a big problem) ... wicked problems require creative solutions, you need to be a designer of the total (t)PACKage..."
  • Stephen Demoratz on 01 Jun 12
     
    This is a beautiful presentation, and I know it's purpose is not to teach you everything about TPACK, but you also don't want to dishearten learners or veteran teachers with overloading them with what they should be doing. If I told everyone right now that by next Friday you all should be playing golf and be good at it, most of you would look at me and say no way or I cannot. If I said I want to show you how to putt a golf ball one day, then the next day we are going to work on chipping a golf ball... I am slowly building the foundation of playing golf. For TPACK to work with teachers who are not tech savvy, you have to slowly build the foundation. Maybe designate one piece of technology, and for some it might be something as simple as a digital camera, and properly work that into a lesson. If you want all teachers to be successful using the TPACK model, baby steps might be needed for some, just like some of our students need baby steps and others hit the classroom running in full stride.
  • Dipali Patel on 01 Jun 12
     
    The video "TPACK Framework" definitely portrays the most important message of TPACK which is successful implementation of TPACK is not an easy process; rather it is a process that will require creativity from teachers. I really like what Stephen stated with his golf analogy and I feel like the video is great for teachers who are new to the framework by explaining TPACK in a very simple format: you need to have knowledge of the content you are teaching, knowledge of how to effectively teach as well as creative ideas of how you will use technology to tie in the content effectively. Through this video, I can see how the subject being taught can be considered as a resistant force to the framework. It is absolutely possible to apply TPACK in every content area however I feel that it is easier or more obvious to apply it in science curriculum as oppose to language arts (I am in no way saying that it is impossible). In order to make TPACK successful introducing teachers to this framework and ensuring them that is okay if they run into a brick wall because this not a 1-2-3 fix and it will require creative solutions.
Stephen Demoratz

TPAC - Demoratz - 2 views

http://aacte.org/Programs/Teacher-Performance-Assessment-Consortium-TPAC/teacher-performance-assessment-consortium.html http://tpafieldtest.nesinc.com/ Teaching Performance Assessment (TPAC) is a ...

Technology Teaching exploration stem

started by Stephen Demoratz on 30 May 12 no follow-up yet
C. Keith Claassen

TPACK in 3 Minutes - YouTube - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

TPACK

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  • C. Keith Claassen on 31 May 12
     
    TPACK Venn Diagram in 3 minutes describing the 7 categories seen on the model.
  • Dipali Patel on 01 Jun 12
     
    Keith's video "TPACK in 3 minutes" did a lovely job of summing up the TPACK framework in a few words with great examples. The speaker makes it a point to explain "context" within the TPACK model and how it is implemented. He states that the model will look very different depending on the perspective (corporate vs. teacher) and grade level (elementary vs high school/college). I think one of the driving forces is the realization and understanding by many teachers that implementing useful technology - in the context of what their teaching- is necessary to accommodate the students' needs regardless of if the teacher is technology smart or not. However, this is where I think the resistant force sets in as well. Even though TPACK is a package where each of the 3 domains work together, I think that teachers find it overwhelming or very "sudden" and big of a change that it makes some of them feel uneasy to fully adopt it. This goes with what Stephen had stated in a previous post- that maybe the best way to approach this framework is to have teachers take baby steps.
  • Stephen Demoratz on 05 Jun 12
     
    Thank you very much for sharing this link. The creator of this video does a very good job of explaining what TPACK is and demonstrating the dotted line for context was a nice addition to the TPACK model. A few other things I am taking from this video is that it shows the power of the internet. I think this teacher did this video in one take, which means he did not spend time editing or retaking what he was doing. I have a feeling this was created in about 15 minutes after setting up the camera, gathering materials and planning in his mind what he would say. This 15 minutes of effort has been watched over 5,000 times since its upload a little over one year ago. In this day and age, 5,000 views on Youtube might not seem like that much, but twenty years ago speaking to 5,000 people on a subject would almost be unimaginable. The power of online video is something I am taking from this course.
C. Keith Claassen

STEM Projects Encourage Students to Excel - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

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shared by C. Keith Claassen on 25 May 12 - No Cached
  • C. Keith Claassen on 25 May 12
     
    This site shows STEM in action! Showing kids that STEM disciplines are not foreign to each other, but rather that the combined effort of many fields culminates the scientific process is paramount to the success of the next generation. STEM subjects should not be approached as separate entities. They are intricately intertwined with each other for the advancement of knowledge. The project shown in this video is an awesome example of STEM subjects coming together.
Heather Causey

Is it TPAC or TPACK? - 10 views

Stephen- please contact the help section in Lore when you can get an error message and let us know immediately- we were hoping that much of the initial angst was over with the site. Sorry I hav...

started by Stephen Demoratz on 31 May 12 3 follow-ups, last by Heather Causey on 05 Jun 12
Dipali Patel

TPACK - another look at it from 2009 - 6 views

Stephen's article "Tpack model for teaching integration" really intrigued me due to its emphasis on the complexity of the model. It was nice seeing the author's spin on TPack and how he believes th...

TPACK Technology science Resources Teaching

started by Stephen Demoratz on 31 May 12 1 follow-up, last by Dipali Patel on 01 Jun 12
C. Keith Claassen

Fostering Pre-service STEM Teachers' Technological Pedagogical ContentKnowledge: A Less... - 3 views

scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar

TPACK stem

shared by C. Keith Claassen on 31 May 12 - No Cached
  • C. Keith Claassen on 31 May 12
     
    there is also a pdf version, but the diigolet will not highlight pdfs so I bookmarked the html page.
  • C. Keith Claassen on 31 May 12
     
    there is also a pdf version, but the diigolet will not highlight pdfs so I bookmarked the html page.
Dipali Patel

TPACK in the Arts Classroom - 1 views

www.artsedcollaborative.org/...tpack

Technology TPACK Innovation

shared by Dipali Patel on 01 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Dipali Patel on 01 Jun 12
     
    Jamie Kasper, associate director of Arts Education collaborative, provides her own perspective or interpretation of the TPACK model.
  • Dipali Patel on 01 Jun 12
     
    Favorite line(s): o "TPACK gives us a model to think about the intersection between technology, content, and instruction" o "We can say the same thing about technology: while we can spend a limited amount of time learning the skills to use it, we eventually need to move beyond skills to think about technology's use in learning."
  • Stephen Demoratz on 01 Jun 12
     
    The pencil analogy she makes is fantastic. "Think about this: in the 1500s when the pencil was new, people generally did not study how to use the pencil." I agree. In 1997 when I decided to go into teaching, the tools of the classroom (overhead projector, chalk, copier) really did not need to be taught as part of the college courses. Now, mastery of the tools we have and the software and websites available is necessary to be a strong educator. I also hate to use these terms, but you are "adding to the plate" of teachers by making them learn more than we had to learn in the past. But technology also "takes things off the plate" by saving great amounts of time in the daily routine of a teacher. I used to spend hours with a calculator on grades each six weeks (yes, six weeks) figuring out grades. It also took much more time finding a parent's phone number, calling, leaving a message, waiting for the call back than simple email technology gives us today.
anonymous

Article About STEM - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...ind-its-just-so-darn-hard.html

STEM education careers collage

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  • anonymous on 31 Jan 15
     
    An interesting article about why students may not pursue STEM related degrees
  • Robin Pelt on 06 Feb 15
     
    Interesting article. My son started off as an engineering major. But after his first semester, he decided that engineering wasn't for him and he changed his major to education. It wasn't that he didn't know about STEM. He even participated in STEM internships in high school. I think the "M" ran him away. He didn't want to deal with all the math that goes with engineering.
Cabell Miltenberger

Evidence Points to Benefits of Active Teaching in STEM Education | The White House - 1 views

www.whitehouse.gov/...active-teaching-stem-education

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shared by Cabell Miltenberger on 31 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • progress has been too slow.
  • “student-centered instructional strategies can positively influence students’ learning, achievement, and knowledge retention, as compared with traditional instructional methods.”
  • making lectures more interactive, having students work in groups, and incorporating authentic problems and activities into coursework as being superior to traditional lectures, which remain the mainstay approach to teaching in too many classrooms.
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  • use of superior teaching strategies can lower the attrition rate among STEM majors
  • improved undergraduate STEM teaching can provide future K-12 teachers with a much greater mastery of the science they will teach, while demonstrating a better model for how science is best taught and learned. 
    • Cabell Miltenberger
      Cabell Miltenberger on 31 Jan 15
       
      Research shows how instructional changes can improve overall STEM learning.
  • anonymous on 31 Jan 15
     
    It just goes to prove that active teaching is essential in all subject areas, not just those involving STEM. Students need to be taught critical thinking skills, not just memorization of facts.
Anna S

Virtual Chemistry Experiments - 3 views

www.chm.davidson.edu/vce

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shared by Anna S on 22 May 12 - No Cached
  • Anna S on 22 May 12
     
    Great resource if you have students needing makeup or home-bound. Virtual Chemistry Experiments are a collection of interative web-based chemistry tutorials. The tutorials employ Physlets and Chemistry Applets to simulate experiments or depict molecular and atomic structure. The guiding concept is to involve the read in making observations and acquiring data, and then using this information to draw conclusions and infer chemical principles.
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  • C. Keith Claassen on 23 May 12
     
    I was a T.A. for a genetics lab course in college, and after an unexpected fruit fly massacre after they had made their second generation crosses I turned their lab into a virtual experiment like this one. These virtual chemistry experiments could be useful, just in case something malfunctions! Thanks for the good site.
  • anonymous on 23 May 12
     
    What do you guys think "virtual experiments" do better than real ones?
  • Tristan C on 23 May 12
     
    They are cheaper and safer. I like the idea of virtual field trips. Some of them are ok. They aren't always entirely directed at an SOL though.
  • Anna S on 25 May 12
     
    I find these are best as additional to traditional lab experiences or, as I posted earlier, I use these for the students that can't be at school for usual labs. Understanding limitations of their own lab technique and evaluation of errors does not occur with simulations. Similar to difference between multiple choice assessment and free response.
  • Eric Byers on 28 May 12
     
    I agree with Anna, virtual experiments wouldn't be my first choice in methodology for lab experiments, but there are somethings that you just, can't do in the classroom. Whether it is from limited resources, limited class time, or simply the experiment is too dangerous for the classroom, virtual experiments are a good alternative. I had a chemistry professor in my undergrad who was making a dvd textbook with lectures and experiments and there was a lot of cool experiments on the dvd that he would have never been able to do during his lectures.
C. Keith Claassen

Using a homemade spectrophotometer in teaching biosciences - 2 views

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...pdf

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shared by C. Keith Claassen on 23 May 12 - No Cached
  • C. Keith Claassen on 23 May 12
     
    I am a big fan of the Wiley Online Library. Research articles are so important (and fun). I used this article as a platform for building my own spectrophotometer for under $100 (science fair project with my step-son). You would think that it would not be very effective in the classroom, but after analyzing gelatin solutions and plotting the data using Excel we got an r^2 value around .988, which is pretty good in my book.
  • Anna S on 25 May 12
     
    Yeah! I love the reliance on empirical data and statistics (R2, yes!)
Eric Byers

100 Best YouTube Videos for Science Teachers - 1 views

nameigoob.blogspot.com/...outube-videos-for-science.html

resources web science Technology

shared by Eric Byers on 24 May 12 - No Cached
  • Eric Byers on 24 May 12
     
    I don't have too many go to sites yet (I hope that improves in the near future) but I did run across this compilation of youtube videos related to science that I think will be helpful in the future. Given some of them are way too basic to use, but there used to be really cool look inside the cell type stuff. The original site shut down so I had to find where someone else posted the links on their blog so my apologizes if you can not access it at this time.
  • Dipali Patel on 24 May 12
     
    Hey Eric- Thanks for posting this website- I was looking through the videos and happen to come across some that I think might be useful for me when I start teaching very soon!
Eric Byers

webcast.berkeley | UC Berkeley Video and Podcasts for Courses & Events - 1 views

webcast.berkeley.edu

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shared by Eric Byers on 24 May 12 - Cached
  • Eric Byers on 24 May 12
     
    This resource is webcast from UC Berkeley Lectures, maybe not the most practical for the classroom but its always interesting to look out how others are teaching similar content.
Tristan C

BrainPOP Jr. - K-3 Educational Movies, Quizzes, Lessons, and More! - 3 views

www.brainpopjr.com

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shared by Tristan C on 24 May 12 - Cached
  • Tristan C on 24 May 12
     
    This site provides educational movies for K-3 students. Homework Help, leveled quizzes, games and activities for kids. Exceptional resource for teachers and homeschools. I use this site very often.
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  • Eric Byers on 28 May 12
     
    What a great resource! Unfortunately, I don't think many high school students would enjoy this too much haha, but I appreciate it none the less. I've found that I have always struggled with creating things like the web site for young children so having this resource will only make it easier in the future to base any projects I have on it.
  • Tristan C on 28 May 12
     
    I forgot to mention that there is another site called www.brainpop.com , which covers more in depth topics. If you go to http://www.brainpop.com/educators/state_standards/ the site says it addresses SOLs up to 12th grade. This is not my area of expertise, but it might be worth a look.
  • Eric Byers on 30 May 12
     
    After I wrote the comment, I saw the brainpop.com site and was impressed with it none the less.
  • Anna S on 30 May 12
     
    I like Brainpop for starting conversation in my AP classes.
Dipali Patel

Where learning comes together - SMART Technologies - 0 views

smarttech.com/...April%20Campaign

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shared by Dipali Patel on 29 May 12 - No Cached
  • Dipali Patel on 29 May 12
     
    Innovation to me is the enhancement of education using customized tools. Recently, there has been great buzz about promoting SMART technologies- a collaborative leaning software that accommodates a variety of learning styles- promoting varied instruction. The SMART notebook collaborative learning software is the world's leading lesson creation software that opens options for interactive lessons that support student-centered learning. Of the vast technologies within this field I seemed to find SMART boards as a very innovative tool for classroom instruction. A SMART board is basically an interactive white board that allows teachers to project a website or image from the laptop to the white board. These SMART boards are capable of storing and saving lessons as well as turning simple lessons into more interactive and customized ones geared to enhance student learning. I think this application is more useful in disciplines such as Science because science changes all the time and has the ability to be much "active" using the web- this is not to say that it cannot be useful in the other disciples however.
Eric Byers

Earth and Space Science Models - 0 views

Lots and lots of models on the Solar System, Eclipses, and Tides. Solar System http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/tour-solar-system.html Eclipses http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/p...

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