The Partnership for 21st Century Skills recently listed the Friday Institute and its New Literacies Collaborative project as two exemplars of best practices in their updated Milestones for Improving Learning & Education (MILE) Guide.
The Friday Institute Evaluation Team received a $65,000 grant to evaluate the effectiveness of the 1:1 Learning Technology Initiative in seven additional high schools. The grants from DPI and the Golden LEAF Foundation will focus on four school districts that are part of the 1:1 pilot expansion and include Chatham County, Whiteville City, Mooresville Graded and Wilkes County School Systems.
The Friday Institute is pleased to announce that there is now an online archive for past Brown Bag Seminars!
The archive features a short description of each seminar and the featured speakers. It also includes video of every seminar, making it easy for you to show the seminars to your friends, colleagues, and students who missed them, or even to catch up on the seminars that you could not attend.
The Friday Institute is pleased to announce that the schedule for the Brown Bag Seminar Series for Fall 2009 has been updated, with an additional seminar added for November 4, 2009. The seminars will take place every Wednesday at 9am in the Collaboratory Commons at the Friday Institute on NC State’s Centennial Campus, with refreshments served at 8:30am.
North Carolina State University’s College of Education will honor Dr. Chris Dede in the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation annual Friday Medal Presentation on Wednesday, Nov. 11.
Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. His research spans emerging technologies for learning, infusing technology into large-scale educational improvement initiatives, policy formulation and analysis, and leadership in educational innovation. Dede is exploring gaming technologies to engage students, promote learning and facilitate assessment with grants from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences.
Last week’s Wednesday morning Brown Bag Seminar featured a professor and researcher from Down Under. Dr. Katie Makar is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Makar is currently on sabbatical, and at the Friday Institute as a visiting scholar for two weeks.
The North Carolina Integrated Mathematics (NCIM) Project held a teacher workshop on September 29, 2009 at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. The workshop was a follow-up meeting to the summer two-week workshop in which teachers expanded their pedagogical content knowledge of the integrated high school mathematics curriculum, Core-Plus.
The National Governor’s Association (NGA) and Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) announced today that Dr. Jere Confrey, Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor in Mathematics Education and Senior Research Fellow at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, and 24 other national experts would comprise the Common Core Standards Initiative Validation Committee.
We are pleased to announce that the Friday Institute now has a Facebook fan page! If you are on Facebook, you can become a fan of the Friday Institute and receive instant updates about upcoming events and the latest news about the Friday Institute.
The Green Research for Incorporating Data in the Classroom (GRIDc) project recently received $400,000 in additional funding from the National Science Foundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program to expand into a second phase of their project.
