Tech related sessions at NCTM conference - An update

Do any of these key words inspire you to want to learn more about it at the NCSM/NCTM conference next week? This wordle was created using words from the titles and descriptions of all the tech-themed sessions at NCTM. Here is a list of all these sessions at NCTM (link).

Are you speaking at NCTM and would like to "improve" the current listing of your session (which you sent in last May) on the NCTM website? We can't change theirs, but you can change ours!  Go to the site CLIME technology-themed sessions and review your listing there. Then let me know (by email) if you want to change anything, share more info or add some reference links. I will make the changes for you immediately.

With the increased use of laptops and hand-held devices at NCTM conferences more attendees will be aware of the CLIME site and would use your latest information to help them make better informed decisions as to which sessions to attend. Also you can refer attendees to the CLIME site (http://clime.org) where they can click on "Click here"  to get to the sessions.

Want to stay better organized at the conference? There's an App for that. Get the new NCTM Conference app now available for Android and iPhone.

At the conference we can get by with a little help from our friends

If you are going to the NCTM conference, you can be a friend of CLIME and help us a bit.
As you may know CLIME is an at-large-affiliate group of NCTM – now in its 23rd year - working hard to help change the current prevailing paradigm of teaching and learning as a passive endeavor to a more proactive one where students and teachers work together to create empowering learning environments using dynamic math and Web 2.0 tools – something we call Math 2.0.
And we are doing this disruptively (see footnote #1) from the inside out! If you want to learn more about CLIME’s friendly disruptive activities visit us in our booth #326 in the exhibit area. Also, we need some help. We need volunteers to:

1. represent CLIME at the NCTM affiliate at-large Caucus meeting. (See footnote #2). Since David and I are leading a discussion special interest group session at NCSM (#351) we will not be able to attend. No previous experience needed. All you need is an interest in (1) how NCTM works "behind the scenes" (2) how CLIME pursues its vision and (3) spending some  bb time talking about 1 & 2 with David and me.
2. Suggest ideas for the long, overdue revised constitution that CLIME is currently working on.
3. Spend some quality time (an hour) at the CLIME booth chatting about the CLIME vision and learn more about how Web 2.0 is helping to transform professional development.

Thanks. Hope to see you at the conference. We’ll be in booth 326 starting on Thursday at 8:30 when the exhibit hall opens. Tweet or email me if you want connect sooner. I’m joining a few attendees at a Tweetup on Tuesday, April 12th. Follow me @climeguy or email me for more details.

Thanks - Ihor
@climeguy & ihor@clime.org

Footnotes
1. In the best sense of word as coined by the authors of “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns”

2. Regional Caucuses will be held at the NCTM Annual Meeting and Exposition in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, at the Indiana Convention Center at the following times and locations:
2:00–4:00 p.m. 
Affiliates-at-Large Caucus: Room 108

My list of sessions to attend at #NCTM11

gearfuse.com

Time's a wasting... Just 10 days before the Indy conference begins. If you are heading to Indy for a doubleheader: NCSM and NCTM here are some session ideas for both conferences:

NCSM Conference

SIGs on Wednesday afternoon. David Weksler and I will be facilitating the discussion on Math 2.0: New Opportunities for Collaborative Teaching and Learning Math with Internet-based Tools (Details)

Focus on STEM. Here's the listing of the sessions in the Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Strand. 

Other technology-themed sessions at NCSM.

108. Moving Your Faculty Toward Diagnostic Teaching, Formative Assessment, and Individualized Instructional Techniques. -Annie Fetter & Steve Rizberg

128. Dynamic Geometric Pathways to Functions Promote Conceptual Understanding of the Variation of Variables and the Behavior of Functions. -Scott Steketee

139. Designing and Teaching Mathematics Lessons to the iGeneration. -Eric Milou

143. It's About Time Publishing Sponsor Showcase: Incorporating Technology with a Standards-Based Program Produces Results. --James Kearns

168. The Ethics of Using Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) and Other Advanced Technologies in High School Mathematics. -Zalman Usiskin

201. Common Standards and Uncommon Teaching: Different Paths to the Same Goal. -David Dockterman 

237. The Role of Electronic Media in Supporting Instruction. -Cal Armstrong, Art Mabbott

244. Key Curriculum Press Showcase: Ignite! Speakers Enlighten the Room with Fresh Ideas in Mathematics.-Karen Coe

List of all sessions - Link

Technology Showcase (vendor) sessions - Link

NCTM Conference

My wish list. If I wasn't tied to the CLIME booth for most of the conference or if I could clone myself, here are some friends of CLIME whose sessions I would definitely attend.

Thursday-April 14

Roger Day - All algebra, All the Tim: Using Netbooks in Algebra 1

Daniel Scher - Infinity in Focus with The Geometer's Sketchpad®

Suzanne Alejandre - Using Technology to Transform Students' Problem-Solving Experiences and Perspectives

Annie Fetter - Using Screen-Capture Movies to Assess Quadrilateral Constructions in Sketchpad

Neil and Stephanie Cooperman - Visualizing Geometry: Connecting Geometric Ideas to the Real World

Steve Phelps - It's Not So Complex! Transforming Your Perspective of Complex Numbers

Friday-April 15

Keith Devlin* - Video Games for Mathematics Education: They Will Soon Get  Better

Patrick Vennebush* - Using Free Resources from NCTM to Promote an Understanding of Proportion -

Karim Kai Logue* - Real-World Lessons the Mathalicious Way

*The above were (or will be) participant hosts of the Math 2.0 Live Elluminate event.

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Taking a smartphone with you to NCSM and/or NCTM? Download NCTM conference mobile app (free) to find useful conference goer information.

Follow NCTM conference tweets at #nctm11 (Also check in #nctm for those not aware of #nctm11)

NCTM conference Tweetups!

Thursday, April 14 - 11:00am - Booth 326 in the exhibit hall. Use your smartphone app or online to find it! If you can't make it at 11 then stop by anytime so I can add you to the NCTM Conference twitter list. We'll schedule as many as interest indicates!

Thursday, April 14 - 6:00pm - Tweetup sponsored by McGraw Hill at Scotty's Brewhouse

Math educator Tweetup* in Indy - You are invited!

Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011

Time: 7:00pm

Place: Scotty's Brewhouse (Indianapolis Downtown)

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sponsored by McGraw-Hill for NCTM

Just in from Liz Strauss!

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1 Virginia Avenue  

Indianapolis, Indiana 46204

Phone: (317) 571-0808

Google map location

Let us know if you are coming!

Questions? Help? Contact Ihor email: ihor@clime.org twitter: @climeguy

*What is a tweetup? 

It is an event where people who Twitter come together to meet in person. Normally we connect with our friends online after we have met them. At a tweetup you meet the people you might only otherwise know virtually. Like finally putting a name to a face, a tweetup is a great opportunity to really connect with the people in your network and share just a little more than 140 characters at a time. Source: socialhat.com

NCTM Conference Buzz via Tweets

Here's a fact that that apparently not too many math educators know about: there are some great online math communities that are moving math teaching and learning towards a new paradigm - something that the Mathfuture and CLIME communities refers to as Math 2.0.  They are doing the kind of pioneer work that continues to inspire me.  Dan Meyer* has emerged has one of the more prominent math  bloggers. You might be interested in skimming the 209 rated math educator blogs listed at this site.

For that reason I want to get the word out to as many math educators as possible. Right now I'm focused on the folks who will be attending the NCTM conference in Indianapolis in April. But even if you are not going to the conference, I'm reaching out to those who would be interested in participating in the conference virtually in some way. 

If you or a colleague are interested in supporting the Indy Math 2.0 initiative that I will be hosting from my CLIME booth in the exhibit hall (April 14-16) please let me know by filling out this brief form.

If you happen to be a speaker (or wish you were one) at the conference and would like to contribute to the virtual conference check out the listing of technology themed sessions at the conference that CLIME has put up. It's a dynamic listing which I will be updating. So if you want to update your description (or add one if it's missing - even if your presentation was NOT accepted) please let me know by replying to this email. Also if you are not presenting and would like to present virtually let me know. I plan to add a list of vendors as well.

Please stop by the CLIME booth #326 to say hello and pick up a Math 2.0 button (actually its just a sticker) to wear  at the conference. :)

*Dan Meyer has a community of collaborators who contribute to his developement of ideas for teaching and learning math using dynamic math and Web 2.0 tools creatively. Check out what Dan does with a conventional word problem in this 90 sec. video. 

Preview of coming events

More CLIMEguy tweeting (click above.)

Keith Devlin - not a keynote speaker at NCTM but should be

You may know of Keith Devlin as a mathematician, Radio's NPR Math Guy and the prolific author of some wonderful math books. But did you know that he is a master level player of World of Warcraft - a massively-multiplayer on-line role playing video game? Or that his two daughters experience with video games in the early 1980s started him on 30 year journey to find out how video games can solve many of our current ills in math education? His recent book "Mathematics Education for a New Era" documents that journey and he will be sharing that vision at his session at the NCTM conference in Indianapolis next month. (More details about his session are available here.)

Pi Day = Ides of March* - 1

Vi Hart's promotion of Tau Day

To honor Pi Day today (which is always on the day before the Ides of March*) I thought I would share Vi Hart's video promoting Tau day... a kind of Un-Pi Day rant?


Tonight on Math 2.0 Live - Special Pi Day presentation: "Blockhead - The Life of Fibonacci" 

Meet author Joseph D'Agnese and discuss ways to use his mathematical picture book, Blockhead: The Life of FIbonacci, to teach not only about the Fibonacci sequence, but a variety of other math concepts.

Right now I'm mostly thinking about the Ides of April +  2 (April 15) that's when CLIME is planning a Math 2.0 live & virtual Party at our booth (#326) at the NCTM meeting in Indianapolis. More details to follow.

*The Ides of March is the name of 15 March in the Roman calendar, probably referring to the day of the full moon. The term ides was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th day of the other months. The Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was usually held. In modern times, the term Ides of March is best known as the date that Julius Caesar was killed in 44 B.C.- Wikipedia
See my Pi Page