Monday, July 28, 2014

Summer Professional Development

I have been at the Microsoft offices for the past week or so, training to teach "Exploring Computer Science" this upcoming academic year.  This curriculum was developed by Code.org and the training is courtesy of a fellowship with iZonenyc.  I was inspired by the "strands of equity, inquiry, and content" that are endemic throughout the curriculum and also the inquiry based teaching strategies that were modeled over the past week.   Check out this reflection video that my group prepared at the end of the week.   



cambrianed.com for student use instead of tinyurl.com/comered, and creating this blog for the purposes of personal reflections about "science, education, technology and equity". Stay tuned for updates and for more information go to cambrianed.com/blog

iZone has taken over for the final few days and we have been given some work time to develop and refine our blended learning strategies.  I have began to refine my online student portal tools in an attempt to operationalize