September 27, 2017
Earlier this summer the LTEC project participated in the
2017 NSF STEM for All Video Showcase. The showcase provides the opportunity for Federally funded projects to share their work in STEM and CS education. In addition to displaying the videos, the initiative invites the community to engage with the presenters on each videos page through discussion.
Please take a minute to catch up on what’s been going on with LTEC, here
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September 07, 2017
Name: Judy Rocke
LTEC Role: I am a Mathematics/CS Lesson Plan Editor. In this role I help develop and edit lessons which incorporate coding into the mathematics curriculum. I also support teachers as they use these lessons in their classrooms. This allows me to see firsthand how students work through each activity.
Professional Background: My background is in middle school education with an emphasis in mathematics. I taught a self-contained fifth grade class for 22 years in a rural district in Illinois. All the while I was interested in furthering my knowledge. I assisted in the development of Illinois Assessment Frameworks for fifth grade mathematics, and I worked for several years with ISAT Assessments. Many years ago, I began my partnership with the University of Illinois and began writing Mathematics Materials for Tomorrow’s Teachers (M2T2), the ideas of which I incorporated into my classroom. Technology became a particular interest to me which led me to Lenny Pitt and Jana Sebestik. Together we wrote three 4H manuals, the first of which is called Discovering Computer Science & Programming through Scratch. Currently I am developing and editing classroom-ready activities using Scratch to enhance elementary mathematic curriculum.
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August 26, 2017
Our database of Computational Thinking (CT) progressions based on elementary teachers’ implementation of integrated CT and mathematics is now available HERE.
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August 16, 2017
The LTEC team is pleased to announce the release of our third public resource and first family of Learning Trajectories - the culmination of two years of work. These are being presented at ICER 2017 in Tacoma, WA in the paper K-8 Learning Trajectories Derived from Research Literature: Sequence, Repetition, Conditionals.
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