I have to thank Wesley Fryer for sharing this video from TEDxNYED. I have watched a slew of the presentations from TEDxNYED. I even had applied to attend and received the invitation to go (Attendance was limited to a couple hundred), but, could not secure any funds to go. BUMMER!!
I have to admit that I originally skipped this one because it was about Math. I know I need to get over that. And had I had a teacher that taught Math this way, I probably would have been a better Math student and maybe even enjoyed Math. I do love that TV Show Numb3rs, basically solving crime using Math. It is pretty darn interesting.
Dan Meyer teaches high school math outside of Santa Cruz, CA, and explores the intersection of math instruction, multimedia, and inquiry-based learning. He received his Masters of Arts from the University of California at Davis in 2005 and Cable in the Classroom’s Leader in Learning award in 2008. He currently works for Google as a curriculum fellow and lives with his wife in Santa Cruz, CA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvKWEvKSi8
Here is another presentation by Dan Meyer: Dan Meyer at NCSM Ignite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5IKIrIQ1kc
Dan’s Blog: http://blog.mrmeyer.com/
Dan’s Vita: (Interesting Format) http://mrmeyer.com
By the way, Michael Wesch of Kansas State University also spoke at the conference.
Mike Wesch, dubbed “the explainer” by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the implications of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society.
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