Call for Papers The “theme” of the second issue of The Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College will be “International Mathematics Education.” A total of ten (10) articles are planned for this issue which is scheduled to appear in late November, 2010. This “call for papers” is an invitation to mathematics education professionals, especially [...]
Distinguished Visiting Professor Daniel Goroff taught popular courses this past year on the “Nature of Proof” in the fall and on “Probability and Decision Theory” in the spring. He is now taking some time off from the classroom, however, and is spending his “summer vacation” in Washington working for the President’s Science Advisor in the [...]
Professor Lalitha Vasudevan, Ahram Park, and Ronny Bernstein are the brilliant minds behind Teachers College’s Social Issue Media Festival (SIMF) that took place on May 6, 2010. Professor Vasudevan, a faculty member in the Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education Program, has been aware of and involved with social issues media through the Media That [...]
Nate Wight, a Teachers College Speech-Language Pathology graduate and graduate student in the School of Engineering at Columbia, is an up and coming filmmaker. Currently working at Alfred E. Smith Career & Technical Education High School (AES) he has been an integral part of a movement to save the school from being phased out. His [...]
Melanie Hibbert, a doctoral student in the Instructional Technology and Media program and EdLab video producer, is an amazing filmmaker. She submitted two videos for the Social Issue Media Festival and received recognition from the jury as a special award winner. One of her films is called “Books Through Bars” and can be seen here. [...]
Lori Falchi, a doctoral student in Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, heard through the grapevine about a wonderful teacher named Professor Vasudevan. So Lori decided to take her course on Media, Culture and Education last fall. For her final project Lori created a video, called “Arts in Schools”, about her son’s school’s Studio in [...]
During the weekend of May 15-16, 2010, Teachers College held TCETC 2010: Technology, Media & Designs for Learning. A graduate student conference focused on “research, development, and applications of new technology in K-12 classrooms, distance learning settings, higher education, and corporate learning environments.” MST Times spoke with Caron Mineo, one of the chairs of the [...]
On Saturday, May 22, 2010, Teachers College was home to a flurry of young emerging programmers. It was Scratch Day, a free day of presentations, workshops, and a Game Jam, organized by Cameron Fadjo (MA ’07 – Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education (CCTE) and PhD student in Human Development (HUD)) and sponsored by the [...]
Nate Finney grew up in an environment from of a scientist’s dream, Sonoma County, California, an hour and a half north of San Francisco and twenty minutes from the beach. His parents were obsessed with science and allowed Nate and his younger sister and brother, who are twins, numerous opportunities to go see marine wildlife [...]
Karen Swan began her involvement with technology during her assistantship at Keene State College in 1983. The assistantship involved working with gifted students in the lab school at the college. The principal of the school wanted the students to use computers. “At the time I thought computers were like the devil,” remarks Dr. Swan regarding [...]