EdTechTalk

We talked about Logo programming language and math in the elementary classroom with our guest Colleen King.

• Maria shared her background with Logo and Roamer robots in her kinder class, and her connections with Colleen who runs an after school Math Group and the Math Playground web site
• Colleen described about how programming and programming robots can be used to teach mathematics in a way that is fun and gets to standards
• There was a discussion about Second Life and how promising this could be for math instruction with children.
• Colleen talked about the need for not just interactive but open-ended math games that don't have just one right answer
• We finished with an interesting discussion about manipulatives, and how Colleen and Maria's thinking about online manipulatives had changed over time from negative to positive.

This week Lisa, Maria, and Sheila are joined by Brian Crosby for a discussion on taking simple lessons and using them to break down the walls of the classroom.

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In this episode of Teachers are Talking, Kristin Hokanson joined Lisa Parisi and Susan van Gelder to discuss fair use practices and copyright issues.  It was quite an eye-opening discussion.

21st Century Learning #101
Lorrie on Social Media in for Advancement and Admissions
April 16, 2009

This week, Lorrie Jackson, Director of Marketing at Lausanne Collegiate School and author of "Are We Really Listening: Social Media and the Marketing of Independent Schools" in the Winter 09 issue of Independent School Magazine joined us. Topic included how our constituents are using social media to make admissions, fund-raising and retention decisions, why every school needs to think beyond the alumni Facebook page and what lessons can be learned from the schools already in the social media fray.