Week+of+August+6


 * Monday,** **August 6**


 * Teacher partners for 8th grade science:
 * Doug Mollinax (Burley) will participate in the project
 * Jake is meeting with Heather Kepple (Walton) next week at some point
 * Peter is still unsure
 * Science educator at Jack Jewett (Kathryn Baylor, principal) -- will meet at 3:00 with mixed reality


 * Tuesday, August 7**
 * Initial priorities for grant application
 * purpose of perspectives -- need to make sure we are aware of other research in the field
 * what are the difficult parts to teach/alternate conceptions
 * what are the current technologies that are used to teach these concepts
 * what programs are currently addressing these concepts
 * Need explicit learning objectives for each day -- how are they addressed, how are they assessed
 * make sure that the engineering design cycle is part of the design of the activities
 * make sure that we map onto the Next Generation Standards
 * differences between science and engineering: 1) designing a solution vs. asking/answering a question, 2) second bullet point here (look it up)
 * Logistics:
 * set up times to
 * review perspectives
 * review research questions for each project
 * schedule time for presentations for each project
 * Across all projects there needs to be a focus on explanation (explanation a big deal in NGS)
 * make sure to have questions that ask students what (if anything) they learned from using the visualizations/physical manipulatives
 * Need to find out when each teacher is teaching the specific content ASAP


 * Research questions for each project:
 * Do students learn?
 * How does DF help?
 * ... then subquestions for each student based on his/her own agenda


 * make page for all 15 Tuesdays of the semester to plan out meetings.
 * Critical friends for peer editing of papers/updates?

plan for next Tuesday: - Crystal and Eddie KI cogind (15 minutes) - circuit perspectives (JC) - Eric - speaker perspectives