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Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education Program
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GK-12 Program Orientation 2003-2004 |
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In this orientation GK-12 Teams will be meeting to formulate strategies and goals
for the upcoming academic year. There will be discussions relating to Community Inquiry Labs,
the use of visualization tools in the classroom and the importance of evaluation. Additionally,
there will be hands-on activities demonstrating specific programs, such as
Biology Student Workbench, ChemViz,
STELLA,
EADS Portal, and math visualization tools.
July 12, 2003, 10 AM - 4 PM
Holiday Inn, Urbana, 1001 Killarney St. Urbana, IL US 61801 (Room TBA)
RSVP: Brent Palmer, cc: Umesh Thakkar and Sharon Comstock
Agenda:
| 10:00-10:30 AM | Breakfast/Welcome | |
| 10:30-10:45 AM | Introductions | Delwyn Harnisch |
| 10:45-11:30 AM | Community Inquiry Labs | Chip Bruce, Sharon Comstock |
| 11:30-12:15 PM | Needs of GK-12 Team | Chip Bruce, Sharon Comstock |
| 12:15-1:00 PM | Modeling and Visualization in Education | Michael Novak, Lisa Bievenue, Michael Kandianis |
| 1:00-2:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00-2:30 PM | Evaluation and NSF Relationship | Delwyn Harnisch, Sharon Comstock |
| 2:30-4:00 PM | Parallel Working Sessions: | |
| Biology Student Workbench | Kathy Gabric, Deanna Raineri |
| ChemViz | Michael Kandianis |
| STELLA | Michael Kandianis |
| Inquiry Page | Chip Bruce, Sharon Comstock |
| EADS Portal | Michael Novak, Lisa Bievenue |
| Math visualization tools (NetMath,
MathEverywhere) | Jerry Uhl |
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Presentations & Resources:
- New Science Stories: NCSA Access, NPACI ENVISION
- New Science + New Tools = New Thinking: Modeling and Visualization in Science Education by Lisa Bievenue and Michael Novak, Shodor Education Foundation
- "Biology Student Workbench Links" by Kathy Gabric, Hinsdale Central High School
- "Learning through Modeling and Visualization" by Delwyn Harnisch
- Comstock, S.L. "Making the Case for Story: Learning Technologies in K-12 Environments," Midwest Qualitative Research Conference, University of St. Thomas (9th Annual Conf. June 18-20, 2003, Minneapolis, MN), 10.
- Inquiry Page by Chip Bruce, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois
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| Notices |
-- This site is archived --
The grant that supported this program has come to an end. GK12 continues
at UIUC under the auspices of LAS. You can find information about the continuation
at http://gk12-uiuc.net/
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GK12 would like to thank the NSF and NCSA for supporting this program. We
also congratulate the teacher-fellow teams over the last three years for
their participation in GK12.
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Teaching Materials
Sample units in biology, chemistry, history, math and computer science
are on the resources
page.
Publications and Presentations
by fellows and evaluators are on the
publications page
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