MSTE Friday Lunch

11/18/2021

Join us this Friday afternoon for the last MSTE Friday Lunch of the Fall semester! Tracy Dace, from Driven to Reach Excellence and Academic Achievement for Males, will be presenting "Hope for the Future: Reaching, Teaching, and Empowering to Prioritize Academic Achievement and Child Well-Being" at noon on November 19th.

Stop by the MSTE Friday Lunch page to register and receive the Zoom link! https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu/event/2021-11-19

10/14/2021

Hey, Friday Lunchers! Our first virtual Friday Lunch of the Fall semester is fast approaching! Join us tomorrow from 12:00 - 1:00pm to hear about the Chicago Pre-College Science & Engineering Program (ChiS&E), presented by Kenneth Hill and LaTina Taylor. Stop by the MSTE Friday Lunch website to register and receive the Zoom details!

Since 2008 the Chicago Pre-College Science and Engineering Program (ChiS&E) has been providing highly-engaging, age-appropriate, hands-on science & engineering activities for Chicago Public School (CPS) K-12 students and their parents. The program develops student and parent knowledge as well as a l...

10/06/2021

Hey Everyone, after a long hiatus, MSTE Friday Lunches are finally back! Our first Friday Lunch of the Fall Semester will be next Friday, October 15th! Check the MSTE Friday Lunch website for more details!

Since 2008 the Chicago Pre-College Science and Engineering Program (ChiS&E) has been providing highly-engaging, age-appropriate, hands-on science & engineering activities for Chicago Public School (CPS) K-12 students and their parents. The program develops student and parent knowledge as well as a l...

10/10/2019

Good news, everyone! We're back this week with the first MSTE Friday Lunch of the 2019 Fall Semester! Barbara Hug will discuss the PAGES project’s approach to developing Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) aligned K-12 curriculum and professional development. She will discuss how to support in-service science teachers with the new standards through the use of NGSS storylines as well as share examples of science curricula and discuss the affordances and challenges of the approach. Join us for her presentation this Friday, October 11th, from 12:00-1:00pm in Classroom 201, 505 E Green St, Champaign.

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Barbara Hug will discuss the PAGES project’s approach to developing Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) aligned K-12 curriculum and professional development. She will discuss how to support in-service science teachers with the new standards through the use of NGSS storylines. She will share e...

03/28/2019

Good news, everyone! We're back this week with another MSTE Friday Lunch! Tim Hendrix is an alumnus of the University of Illinois and a former MSTE staff member. Currently, Tim is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Meredith College, a private liberal arts college for women in Raleigh, NC. Join us for his presentation entitled “Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching: What do familiar challenges look like in a brave, new world?” this Friday, March 29th, from 12:00-1:00pm in Classroom 201, 505 E Green St, Champaign.

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One of the delights of mathematics teacher preparation is the opportunity to work with and learn alongside pre-service teachers of mathematics, to develop relationships, and to follow the trajectory of their journeys as mathematics educators. We live in a robust epoch of mathematics teacher educatio...

11/02/2018

Hello MSTE Friday Lunch Crew!!

We are back this week with another MSTE Friday Lunch presentation! Dr. Cheng-Yao Lin and Dr. Jerry Becker will be joining us this week. Dr. Lin and Dr. Becker are both professors of mathematics education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Join us for their presentation titled "Weaknesses in Preservice Teacher’s Computational Skills and Understandings" today, November 2nd, from 12:00 - 1:00pm in Classroom 201, 505 E Green St, Champaign.

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In this session, Dr. Cheng-Yao Lin and Dr. Jerry Becker will discuss weaknesses they have found in preservice teacher’s computational skills and understanding. To assess students’ computational skills, they administered pretests the first day of class on the basic addition facts, multiplication ...

04/18/2018

We’re back this week with our LAST presentation of the Spring semester! This week’s speaker is another former MSTE partner who will be here to celebrate our 25th anniversary! Debra Woods was the director of NetMath in the Mathematics department and collaborator with George Reese, MSTE Director, on several partnership grants with schools. Join us this Friday, April 20th, from 12:00-1:00pm for her presentation: "Three Mathematicians Walked into a Bar". Classroom 201, 505 E. Green Street, Champaign.

NetMath is a successful online computer-based mathematics program based on the Calculus & Mathematica (C&M) project created by mathematicians Jerry Uhl, Horacio Porta, and Bill Davis. The C&M courseware was born out of the early calculus reform movement, which coincidently coincided with the launch....

04/05/2018

Hello MSTE Friday Lunch Crew!

We’re back this week with another presentation from a former MSTE partner to celebrate our 25th anniversary! Ed Susmilch was the Principal at the Technology Center of DuPage and worked with the MSTE Office in the late 1990s on projects that connected digital technologies with career and technical education. Join us for his presentation titled "Math Teachers, Auto Mechanics, and Internet Education in the 90s" this Friday, April 6th, from 12:00 - 1:00pm in Classroom 201, 505 E Green St, Champaign.

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In September, 1989, Ed was a principal at a Career and Technical Education (CTE) school. He was visiting with parents whose students were starting at UIUC. They began to describe a way to make a local phone call on their TRS80 home computer that would allow them to use their computer to send a lette...

03/28/2018

Hello MSTE Friday Lunch Crew!

We’re back this week with another presentation from a MSTE alumnus to celebrate our 25th anniversary! Amar Patel worked at the MSTE Office while he was a student at the University and he is now a mathematics teacher at James B. Conant High School. Join us for his presentation titled "No Homework? No Problem" this Friday, March 30th, from 12:00 - 1:00pm in Classroom 201, 505 E Green St, Champaign.

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Can AP Statistics be taught, learned, and mastered without doing an ounce of what traditionally is called homework? The answer is a resounding yes!

02/21/2018

Hello MSTE Friday Lunch Crew!

It’s time for the first MSTE Friday Lunch of the
Spring Semester! 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the MSTE Office and this semester's presenters are all MSTE alumni and/or former MSTE partners! Join us this Friday, February 23rd, for a presentation titled "Exponential Educators: How Can Education Match the Speed of Innovation?" by Mikkel Storaasli, former student of Dr. Ken Travers, MSTE Director Emeritus.12:00-1:00pm in Classroom 201, 505 E Green St, Champaign.

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It's been said that we are living in exponential times, based on how rapidly (exponentially) technology is changing, and how equally rapidly society is changing. What are the qualities we should look for in teachers to ensure students are prepared for the world they're facing?

11/01/2017

Hello MSTE Friday Lunch Crew!

It’s time for the last MSTE Friday Lunch of the Fall Semester! Join MSTE’s own Jana Sebestik, Assistant Director of STEM Curriculum Design, for a unique MSTE Friday Lunch experience - a hands-on workshop: Have Screwdriver: Will Hack! This Friday, November 3rd, from 12:00-1:00pm in Classroom 201, 505 E Green St, Champaign.

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Join Jana Sebestik, Assistant Director of STEM Curriculum Design, for a unique MSTE Friday Lunch experience - a hands-on workshop!

10/18/2017

It’s time for another MSTE Friday Lunch! Join us this Friday, October 20th, from 12:00-1:00pm in Classroom 201, 505 E. Green St, Champaign, for a talk about Computer Science education from the members of the Creative Technology Research Lab (CTRL).

This presentation will provide an overview of the NSF-funded research on integrated K-8 computer science (CS) instruction for academically diverse learners, including those with disabilities. This work represents a collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois and Cornell Tech as well as practitioners in Champaign Unit 4 School District. All are welcome, but please RSVP!: http://bit.ly/2zgcIBs

This presentation will provide an overview of the NSF-funded research on integrated K-8 computer science (CS) instruction for academically diverse learners, including those with disabilities. This work represents a collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois and Cornell Tech as w...