Tom McGlew, project manager for eSyst, just got off the phone with a major textbook publisher. The publisher had received a phone call from a major US company that employees more than two hundred thousand people. The conversation went something like this:
We can no longer have you teach from the components level. We need to […]
To most people, Nanotechnology is new. But it really isn’t. Nanotechnology as a name is relatively new, but what has been done is not. Nanotechnology was done in the Roman times - though, we know for a fact that is not what they called it, and that they probably didn’t realize they were doing nanotechnology. […]
So how big is eSyst? Three years ago when the eSyst grant was awarded by the NSF, almost no programs in the United States were system based. There were a few out there, oasis in the desert, but you could count them on two hands. When project manager Tom McGlew and the eSyst team of […]
If you missed the webinar Leveraging Social Learning Tools: Social Tools for Student Success, with Karl Kapp, you can view the recording and see the slides over at the MATEC NetWorks digital library. Just do a keyword search Kapp Webinar (or Slides) Social Learning. Or just do Kapp to view all the webinars and slides […]
How many times has a lightbulb gone on for a student when the math they are learning, is used in a real-world situation, and they finally get why the math is important? And how many times are students taught the math, but not taught how it could be possibly be used. I think the old […]
All the students use them (social tools like twitter, Facebook, etc.), so why not you? Oh, you say you are not sure how social tools can be used in a classroom? Find out how this Friday with a free webinar with Karl Kapp, author of Gadget, Games, and Gizmos, and Learning in 3D.
Imagine being able […]
For-Profit Colleges should be a wake up call for Community Colleges. The GOA has been investigating for-profit colleges. What they found was appalling to me. It should be to everyone in the community college system. Students want to go to community colleges, it is just that the level of service, class cancellations or no classes […]
Are you wondering what you should do July 26-29? Want to get away and have some fun? The HI-TEC conference is this month and it is in Orlando, Florida. So bring the family and while you are learning at the conference, they can be enjoying all that Orlando has to offer.
HI-TEC is a national conference […]
The last installment of our @matec newsletter article ”Education Challenges in the 21st Century”, inspired by Cathleen Barton’s presentation at the HI-TEC 2009 event, focuses on the Common Core State Standard Initiative. The initiative is a significant and historic opportunities for states to collectively develop and adopt a core set of academic standards in mathematics and […]
The new webinar schedule is ready! We are only doing 10 webinars this year because so many of our partners want to do webinars as well. Here is a brief listing of the MATEC NetWorks webinar. For a short description, take a look at the @matec next week!
August 13 - Leveraging Social Learning Tools
September 10 […]
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