Brown Bag Seminar Series Schedule Announced
The Friday Institute is pleased to announce the schedule for the Brown Bag Seminar Series for Fall 2009. The seminars will all take place every Wednesday at 9am in the Collaboratory Commons at the Friday Institute on NC State’s Centennial Campus, with refreshments served at 8:30am. Feel free to attend as many seminars as possible, and spread the word to your colleagues and students. Announcements will be sent out prior to each seminar, and you will be notified if any changes are made to the schedule.
Please contact Dr. Alan Maloney at alan_maloney@ncsu.edu if you have any questions or comments.
September 16, 2009 Neil Heffernan, Associate Professor of Computer Science,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"Innovations in Cognitive Tutoring for the 21st Century:
the ASSISTments Project"
September 23, 2009 Sean Smith, Senior Research Associate,
Horizon Research, Inc.
"New Tools for Studying the Relationship Between Teacher
Content Knowledge and Student Learning"
September 30, 2009 Eric Wiebe, Associate Professor,
Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, NCSU
"Elementary Science: Current Practice and the Potential
of Enhanced Graphic-based Representational Reasoning"
October 7, 2009 Katie Makar, Senior Lecturer,
University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia
"Inquiry-based Teaching in Mathematics and Statistics
in Australian Primary Schools; Findings from a
Four-year Research Study"
October 14, 2009 Ji Shen, Assistant Professor,
Mathematics and Science Education, University of Georgia
"Transformative Modeling: Towards an Instructional
Theory of Learning Sciences"
October 21, 2009 Stephanie Dean, Director of Research and Evaluation,
James B Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership
and Policy
"The Mission and Research of the Hunt Institute"
October 28, 2009 John Lee, Associate Professor,
Curriculum, Instruction and Counselor Education, NCSU
"New Historical Literacies and Modern Resources"
November 4, 2009 To Be Determined
November 11, 2009 Karen Hollebrands, Associate Professor,
Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, NCSU
Hollylynne Lee, Associate Professor,
Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, NCSU
"Preparing to Teach Mathematics with Technology
(PTMT) Project"
November 18, 2009 Jere Confrey, Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor
Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, NCSU
Erin Krupa, Graduate Research Assistant
The Friday Institute, NCSU
"CLIPS-Creating Web-based Communities of Mathematics
Teachers to Promote Interactive Classrooms Using
Video Examples"
December 2, 2009 Hiller Spires, Professor
Curriculum, Instruction and Counselor Education, NCSU
Eric Wiebe, Associate Professor
Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, NCSU
Carl Young, Associate Professor,
Curriculum, Instruction and Counselor Education, NCSU
Karen Hollebrands, Associate Professor,
Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, NCSU
John Lee, Associate Professor,
Curriculum, Instruction and Counselor Education, NCSU
"Towards a New Learning Ecology"