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dhester wrote a new post, Paranoia, The Destroyer, on the site Making it Real with Robotics! 1 week, 2 days ago
Janet Graham and Ted Hodgson discovered back in 2004 that encouraging students to chat online about mathematics in the classroom increased their understanding of mathematics vocabulary which they described in […]
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dhester wrote a new post, Course 2 Final Project BYODAUP (Bring Your Own Device Acceptable Use Policy), on the site Making it Real with Robotics! 1 week, 2 days ago
As was discussed in the May 1st COETAIL Big Marker session , the American International School of Bucharest (AISB) will be implementing a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program as the school board did not […]
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dhester wrote a new post, Digital Citizenship of a Country Called The Internet?, on the site Making it Real with Robotics! 2 weeks, 6 days ago
The FIRST World Championships in robotics is now over and I am now back in Bucharest. For 4 days in St Louis, over 12,000 students from 32 different countries built, programmed and competed with robots that […]
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dhester commented on the post, A rolling stone, on the site Hangarau 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Hi Andrew,
I tried to bring back internet links from my past (1993-1998) using a Google search but they are long gone. Any negative consequences to your digital profile due to your laissez faire approach should […] -
dhester wrote a new post, Don’t Be Evil Copyrighting the Public Domain, on the site Making it Real with Robotics! 4 weeks, 1 day ago
This morning I ran across a New York Times article “Don’t Be Evil, but Don’t Miss the Train” by Quentin Hardy that discusses some of the inherent contradictions concerning internet privacy. In the article the […]
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dhester wrote a new post, Internet Shelf Life, on the site Making it Real with Robotics! 1 month ago
What is the shelf life of SPAM™ and how is this related to digital profiles, remixing and copyright? As I try to catch up on the last 3 weeks of course 2 I will try to answer the latter while leaving the […]
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dhester commented on the post, Flattening the Robo Sitter Unit: Course 1 Project, on the site Making it Real with Robotics! 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The American International School of Bucharest has a new 1 semester high school robotics course and a 1 semester middle school robotics course. We also have 2 FIRST Tech Challenge robotics teams and the school is […]
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dhester commented on the post, What are we really teaching?, on the site Hangarau 2 months, 1 week ago
In the IB Middle Years Program (MYP) all technology courses must use the design cycle and students are assessed on how they document and complete the cycle. The students need specific tech skills such as […]
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dhester wrote a new post, Flattening the Robo Sitter Unit: Course 1 Project, on the site Making it Real with Robotics! 2 months, 1 week ago
The emphasis of course 1 for the COETAIL program is to use the internet as a collaborative tool by having students create and respond to blog posts. For my end of course 1 project I have decided to update a […]
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dhester commented on the post, Dan Meyers Talks and so do I, on the site nearly win 2 months, 1 week ago
I teach in the DP program and the MYP program. As in science the DP math syllabi are very prescriptive and the number of topics that need to be covered does not leave much time for discovery learning. The MYP […]
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dhester commented on the post, Be Less Helpful, Go Slow, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 months, 1 week ago
This is also a problem when I do discovery learning in mathematics. I have been using Geometer’s Sketchpad since 1995 and in that time I have learned to be vague with the students when I had lots of time, provide […]
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Dean Hester wrote a new post, Circling back to circles, on the site Making it Real with Robotics! 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Last week I had an experience of how a math lesson could be so much more authentic than a traditional textbook math lesson as I taught my robotics class.
As Dan Meyer points out in his TED talk (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvKWEvKSi8" […]
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Dean Hester commented on the post, Flipping Out on a Snow Day, on the site Making it Real with Robotics! 2 months, 3 weeks ago
As I feared the work done by students online for the snow day lesson was disappointing. Three weeks after posting the lesson, only 4 out of 12 students bothered to complete the assignment and submit their word […]
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Dean Hester wrote a new post, Content, Connections and Creation, on the site Making it Real with Robotics! 2 months, 3 weeks ago
After reading the article “Connectivism: A Learning Theory of the Digital Age” I felt that the author missed the duality inherent in online learning. I remember being a student at UC Berkeley in 1984 when the […]
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Dean Hester wrote a new post, Flipping Out on a Snow Day, on the site Making it Real with Robotics! 3 months, 1 week ago
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Dean Hester wrote a new post, Robotics Competitions as Problem Solving Tournaments, on the site Making it Real with Robotics! 3 months, 1 week ago
After spending the last 4 days at the Central and Eastern European Schools Association high school math competition in Prague, it struck me how difficult it was to design a math tournament where students’ math […]
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Dean Hester wrote a new post, Connecting Everywhere, on the site Making it Real with Robotics! 3 months, 1 week ago
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Dean Hester commented on the post, Not So Easy to Flip Your Mid(dle Years Classes), on the site te@chnology 3 months, 1 week ago
I also recently taught a flipped 9th/10th grade robotics class where much of the content that students were expected to learn was available in online videos from Carnegie Mellon. The class was a mixed success with […]
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