Share your use of technology in your classroom with others: Call for speakers

Come and share your ideas and experiences with mobile technology for teaching and learning. Present an interesting and exciting session at the Mobile Learning Conference!
The conference will be held in Portage Michigan at Kalamazoo RESA on May 10, 2013.
PRESENTATION TYPE
Concurrent Sessions: 60-minute sessions are offered by an individual or a team of presenters. These presentations are informative, focusing on various aspects of mobile technology for teaching and learning.
SPEAKER SELECTION
The planning committee will evaluate your proposal for:

• Content—does your description clearly outline the objectives? Can your topic be covered in a one-hour presentation?
• Appropriateness—is the topic current and of relevant educational value for participants?

INTERNET CONNECTIVITY
Internet connections will be available in all session rooms.
REGISTRATION AND HOUSING
Registration and housing information will be available online soon.

TO BE A SPEAKER AT THE Mobile Learning Conference go to submit your proposal now.

Submission Deadline: April 10, 2013. Speakers receive a complimentary registration!

Great math questions ripped from life!

Dan Meyer has recently launched 101questions: an online database of mathematically intriguing images and videos ripped from life. You can join the site to submit THE mathematical question that the image or video evokes.


Each week, Dan picks his "five favorites" from the week's submissions and reveals the questions that members submitted.
So what's the mathematical question that comes to mind from this image, "too good to be true"?
Here's this week's Five Favorites:

• Too good to be true, Scott Keltner. So is it … free … then? I give this image strong odds on provoking a class debate and highlighting some of your students' misconceptions of percent growth.
• Car Chase, Ryan Brown. The current darling of 101questions. (12 questions, no skips, as of this writing.) Notice how the first car smacks into the second, which was hidden off-screen. That's stylish camera work!
• Muggsy Bogues, Tony Gumbo. The question, "How much shorter is Muggsy Bogues?" is one thing. "How many different ways can you express that difference?" is another. (eg. Absolute v. relative.) Start with the first. End with the second.
• First day of school, John Golden. "Is your height linear?" It's a striking visual and the units along the "x-axis" are identical so you have a rare moment to examine the growth of height over time using people in photographs rather than points on a graph.
• Plinko, Michael Pershan. Yeah, great cut at the end there. Where's the wisdom in putting the biggest pay-out beneath the most likely bucket? Bowen? (Related: this image, taken from this video.)

So here are my questions to all math teachers: 

• How can you use these images and videos in your classroom?
• How do these questions help to engage your students in the Standards for Mathematical Practice?

Leave your comments and ideas below.

Summer Astronomy Camp for 6th-12th grade students

Do you like to gaze at the stars, moons and planets? 
Are you interested in photography or science research? 
Do you like to meet new people with similar interests? 
If you said yes to any of the questions above, then Astronomy Camp may be the right opportunity for you!
Astronomy Camp is an overnight camp where you can work with experienced teachers and researchers to learn about astronomy. There will be guided activities to learn about constellations, sunspots, astrophotography, variable stars and much more! You may also work on individual or small group research projects. University
researchers and local astronomy teachers will provide guidance for completing your project.

At Astronomy Camp, you will use computerized telescopes, a CCD camera, solar filters, computers and other equipment at the Camp McGregor Observatory. Various astronomy experts will be present to make presentations about current research in astronomy.

Like true astronomers, you will work on your projects at night and sleep late during the day.

Astronomy Research Camp is open to students in 

grades 6th-12th.

The overnight camp will be held at Camp McGregor 

on Crispell Lake, near Jackson.

Dates: 2:00 p.m. 8/13/12 through 12:00 p.m. 

8/16/12

Registration has been extended until June 1.


For more information and to register, check out the application brochure.

What year are you preparing your students for? 1980 or 2020?

Explore these questions and raise your own with internationally recognized curriculum expert Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs in what promises to be a lively and engaging webinar event. She will share her newest project on how upgrade professional development as well as provide you with specific resources