Third places don't just magically appear — people make them appear by repeatedly going to to the same place over and over again and meeting people who also like going to that place — until eventually you can just go by yourself and know you have friends there.

🚨Deadline Extended! 🚨 Submit your proposal for the 2025 DSE-K12 Conference by August 8, 2024! Share your ideas on "Addressing the Human Dimensions of Data" and help shape the future of K-12 data science education. Submit here: hubs.li/Q02JMgd70 #DataScience #K12

📅 Mark your calendars! On August 28, 2024, at 4:30 PM ET, join us for "Data Literacy for Young Learners: Demystifying K-5 Data Science." 🌐 Discover how data science can be integrated into primary education. Sign up here: hubs.li/Q02JtcrC0

Amused myself during lunch by making an Excel spreadsheet to randomly generate playful mathematical prompts, mix-and-match style: [verb] a/an [adjective] [noun] Here are some that tickled me.

Paging Mary Bourassa ! Some of us went to wodb.ca for a PD session this week and found it out of commission. 😱 Is that expected?

Object Zero Passive control > active control. (Where feasible.)

Jordan Taylor Exactly. It’s feasible everywhere, it’s just a lot more work. More often than not, you can even eliminate the very issue you are trying to control. eg structural flutter breeds fluid instability, and demands an entire system of sensors, valves and control systems.

Help us make #CSTA2025 the best conference yet! Apply to review presentation proposals: ow.ly/z1Ho50SQ6Zh

OUR NEW PAPER IS OUT!!! 😃💪👇 "Generative AI in education and research: A systematic mapping review" (Yusuf Y. Abdullahi, Ph.D. 🇳🇬 et al., 2024), just published in Review of Education doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3… #GenerativeAI #AIeducation

Oh, did we think SMART goals were actually based on something? Ha! They’ve been MBA self-soothing 💩 from Day 1.

#Computationalthinking. It’s for grownups too. 😉

What math standard in a k-6 world, or around your grade level, is the hardest to teach conceptually or for you students to understand? #iteachmath

BTC (& guided inquiry at large) in math IS, in fact, supported by cognitive science. Read my post to learn more: Why Building Thinking Classrooms Works: Using Evidence from Cognitive Science Research to Explain the Effectiveness of the BTC Framework mrjasonto.com/2024/08/28/why…

'Bureaucracy' takes the title as the Hardest Word To Spell! Let's cut through the red tape and find out what is the Most Satisfying Word to Write. Most-liked replies wins!

Here are ten short lesson ideas, all pulled from major curricula and edtech products. Which of them will ACTUALLY work well? Which will result in chaos? Take the survey and check your answers against practicing teachers. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

The wodb.ca website is back up for now. Its content will be moving over to Christopher Danielson's site in the not too distant future. He will provide a great home for all your wonderful creations!

Season 7 of OAME/AOEM OAMEtalks is live at talks.oame.on.ca This season has speakers from #OAME2023 talks.oame.on.ca/season-7 feat Cal Armstrong Mike Deutsch Jenna Laib Kelly Cullen Lisa Lunney Borden #MathChat #MTBoS #iTeachMath

Resharing my booklet of Micro:bit Educational Foundation game making worksheets 🕹️Games include pacman👻, space invaders 👾, Frogger 🐸 and more. I have found that these activities engage children with coding and creativity and I am sure that children in your classroom will enjoy them too 😀👇

The 2025 Call for Papers is now live! We look forward to seeing you in June 2025 at our 52nd annual conference. Proposals are due October 9 @ csse-scee.ca/conference-202…

Is math discovered, like a molecule? Or is it a tool invented for the purpose of discovery, like a microscope? Both, I say. It's an invention wrapped around a discovery, the molecule *and* the microscope. lithub.com/humanitys-stra…