ISTE Denver Monday

Monday was a big day at the conference as the exhibition hall opened today and that was amazing I managed to get lost in there. It was quite overwhelming. I was trying to find the hapara stand to get our free goodies. The workshops I attended that day where Storytellers of the Future , Empowering Students with Multimodal Math which was probably more at a secondary level then primary looking at the magma app and number which is an Apple app and GeoGebra a lot of our secondary schools use. It was great to hear the presenter talking about John Hatties work talking about his effect sizes and about the importance of authentic contexts which were what a lot of these activities were based around. Magma it was great because it allowed the teacher to have access to all of the students' work. They were able to monitor the answers using a monitoring system. Story tellers of the future was another great workshop simular to the one I attended yesterday. I also attended Words matter in maths based around Peter liljedahls wonderful problem solving work which was good to see how they are using his work. She also shared lots of great links to resources.. We managed to head back to the hotel to get changed before heading off to the 90s party which was great.