tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695871120398977027.post984927368268952270..comments2023-12-20T04:29:40.951-05:00Comments on CLIME Connections: Yesterday I found out that I won a lottery that will cost me moneyIhor Charischakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09311015215728634606noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695871120398977027.post-36118408755539212292011-09-15T10:26:10.326-04:002011-09-15T10:26:10.326-04:00Reply to gfrbixt: I look forward to meeting you in...Reply to gfrbixt: I look forward to meeting you in philly! I just discovered your <a href="http://hyperbolicguitars.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">blog</a>. I read your Tufte post.It was great. I'm a fan of his. <br />CLIME has been identifying the technology sessions at the annual NCTM conferences for years. I usually post all them - on average about 15% of the total presentations and I do highlight the ones that are "pushing the envelop." Here's my list for last April's <a href="http://web.mac.com/ihor12/files/nctm11/fridaysessions.html" rel="nofollow">Indy meeting.</a> Will do it again for philly. Your thoughts about it would be very helpful. Thanks.Ihor Charischakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09311015215728634606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695871120398977027.post-48649862616467583742011-09-10T13:23:52.054-04:002011-09-10T13:23:52.054-04:00Congratulations, Ihor. Perhaps they can be encoura...Congratulations, Ihor. Perhaps they can be encouraged to create a strand on bringing math education into the 21st century!! Unless & until the leadership is willing to expand their own vision of what's important for math educators to share and learn about, participants will not be exposed to new ideas and approaches that can be truly transformative of teaching and learning.Sue Hellmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695871120398977027.post-19546623158060652042011-09-08T22:01:44.735-04:002011-09-08T22:01:44.735-04:00I will presenting at NCTM in April as well (woo ho...I will presenting at NCTM in April as well (woo hoo! we both won the lottery!) on what I hope will not be construed as "Desert Island Mathematics". It's a presentation titled "The Intersection of Math, Music, and Technology". I would be very excited to meet with you and anyone else interested in trying new things out in math education! Perhaps when the program guide comes out for the national meeting, it might be helpful to identify presentations that truly will reflect new approaches or new ideas using technology.Qhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01222812519913852182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695871120398977027.post-33938323535867371372011-09-03T15:38:46.135-04:002011-09-03T15:38:46.135-04:00I just heard about Gary Stager's new workshop ...I just heard about Gary Stager's new workshop offerings for 2011-2012 <a href="http://http://stager.tv/blog/?p=2276" rel="nofollow">new workshop offerings for 2011-2012</a>. This one in particular caught my eye:<br /><b>Electrifying Children’s Mathematics</b><br />There may be no greater gap between a discipline and the teaching done in its name than when the beauty, power and mystery of mathematics becomes math instruction. One can only begin to address the systemic challenges of math education by understanding the nature of mathematics. Nearly 100 years of efforts to increase achievement with unchanged curricular content continues to fail spectacularly; yet, we do not change course. This workshops moves beyond the goal of making math instruction engaging to providing educators with authentic mathematical thinking experiences. Such experiences acknowledge the role computers play in mathematics and society’s increasing demand for computational thinking. Project-based approaches with mathematics at the center of the activity will be explored. Traditional concepts such as numeracy, geometry, probability and graphing will be investigated in addition to exciting new branches of mathematics rarely found in the primary grades.<br />This workshop is designed for teachers of grades 3-8. It may also be offered as an ongoing course with a greater emphasis on curriculum development and action research.Ihor Charischakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09311015215728634606noreply@blogger.com