Notes from Nov 11 Meeting

Today’s Targets

Outline and detail your focus for the next 6 weeks (with consideration for the entire year)
Establish agreement of how you will work together to accomplish the objectives of M/S/T
Determine pre and post tests for integrated units.

Notes from intro
How has Tech supported Math?

Scale drawings-using 1/4″ graph on an image then scaling up to a 1″ [...]

Dot Car Lesson

From Darryl Kettle
Dot Car

Packaging Lesson from Tim Kelley

This is an integrated unti from Tim Kelley in Bloomfield.
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Sept 30th 2008-2009

Quick Ideas from the first meeting of 2008-2009
Integrated STEM through Design Thinking
Importance of Design and Technological Learning Opportunities

coordination of curriculum
articulated instruction
programming that integrates lessons from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics so that lessons are deliberately aligned around a common purpose.

Learning Cycle – IMAST

Explore (no or no direction)
Getting the Idea (direct instruction)
Applying the Idea
Expanding the Idea

Sustainability
the [...]

Embedding files in a blog post

This is the way that you can embed a file in theblog
Go to “write a post” and “Add media” at the top
Browse for your file and follow instructions and it will appar as a link like this.
Energy Jammers Rubric

A few resources from Jeff Bush

STEM Education Coalition: http://www.stemedcoalition.org/

Tech Tally: Approaches to Assessing Technological Literacy www.nap.edu

Technically Speaking: Why all Americans need to know more about technology www.nap.edu

Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology www.iteaconnect.org

National Educational Technology Standards for Students: www.iste.org

Learning Institute for Technology Education/LITE: www.litesource.org 

Making a Catapult

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