Meghan Zigmond (@ZigZagsTech) teaches first grade in a public school near Corpus Christy, Texas. She has taught first grade for nine years. “Even if you are not an early childhood teacher, you will be able to get a lot out of today,” Meghan continues. She plans to address a number of apps and resources that […]
Solve Problems Together in Real Time with Math Chat – From Sabba Quidwai
This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Recently, I attended the EdSurge Summit in Los Angeles where I had the chance to take a first hand look at a great, new, FREE app called MathChat. We can all relate to a similar, enormous challenge while growing up: being stuck on a math problem […]
Enlightened Problem Solving – Guest Post from Norma Gordon
This is a guest post from Norma Gordon (@normabgordon) at CueThink – one of our vendors for the November 13-14 iPad Summit in Boston. In 1960, George Polya, addressing inservice and preservice teachers, concluded with, “I have given you my ideas about how you should teach mathematics. There are the ideas of active learning, the priority of action and […]
Teaching and Twitter: #edchat, #sschat, #mathchat, #engchat, #scichat….
Recently, EdTechTeacher’s Greg Kulowiec was quoted by both the Washington Post and the New York Times. In Teachers take to Twitter to improve craft and commiserate, Greg comments on the value of Twitter for promoting his own professional development. “I always tell people the the most valuable 15 minutes I spend, in terms of my […]