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Engineering A Better School

Engineering A Better School

Recently, in my bioengineering course, we were having a lively discussion about “ideation” - thinking of novel, crazy, outside-the-box solutions to problems in the world we saw as urgent. As I watched my students come up with solutions to their problems - a color sensor for burnt toast, a pressure sensor to detect fouls on the soccer field, low-cost motion sensors to detect speeding cars - I was struck with a question: Why don’t we do this type of “engineering design” more of

Knowing Your Audience

Knowing Your Audience

In my second day at graduate school, my education professor gave my class advice that was very simple but memorable. He said, “A great teacher is like a great entertainer, you need to know your audience.” Later that day while I was sitting on the Q train heading home after class, I thought about what my professor said and looked back at my experiences as a NYC public school student; I had several exceptional teachers in elementary and middle school, but when I thought back to

Problem Posing: Generating Questions for Exploration

Problem Posing: Generating Questions for Exploration

Students are asked a tremendous amount of questions daily, and yet they rarely spend time crafting their own questions or answering questions posed by their peers. This is true in my own math classroom, where most math problems encountered by students come from textbooks, digital curricula, blogs and suggestions from colleagues at school and on Twitter. But lately, I have been asking students to pose their own mathematical problems, with much success. What exactly is problem

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EDxEDNYC has WiFi and is a participatory event! We encourage you to bring a laptop or tablet.

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There are 3 90-minute sessions throughout the day. There is a
1-hour lunch. During lunch, there are 5-minute Ignite Presentations, which are awesome!

You DO NOT have to sign up for sessions. We encourage you to visit sessions as you wish on June 8th.

MEALS

Breakfast and lunch are provided at EDxEDNYC, though you are welcome to go out and explore the neighborhood!

PARKING & TRANSPORTATION

There are several parking garages available in the neighborhood, but street parking is hard to come by. We recommend taking public transportation. We are 1 block from the ACE and the 1 trains.

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