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.
Dr. Makar’s research focuses on two areas: teachers' ongoing learning of inquiry-based teaching and students' informal inferential reasoning in statistics. She has received two nationally funded grants to understand teachers' experiences and the supports needed in shifting to inquiry-based practices over time.
Dr. Makar received her Ph. D. in Mathematics Education from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004: she was a student of our own Professor Jere Confrey. In 2007, she received the Early Career Award for Excellence in Research from the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australia. She was awarded tenure at the University of Queensland last year.
Her brown bag presentation was entitled "Inquiry-based Teaching in Mathematics and Statistics in Australian Primary Schools: Findings from a Four-year Research Study.”
Watch the video of Dr. Makar’s presentation and download the resources she shared at the Brown Bag Series Blog.
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.
The Friday Institute is pleased to announce the schedule for the Brown Bag Seminar Series for Fall 2009. The seminars will all 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.
Filling the pipeline with the next generation of chemists, engineers and rocket scientists isn’t easy. New research at North Carolina State University hopes to drive U.S. students to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, also known as STEM.
