The ISTE 2016 conference is currently taking place in Denver, and until today I have never heard of the ISTE conference. It looks like I need to take a long look into this one for the future.
Based on what I'm finding on Twitter tonight, two gentlemen (Bob & Jedidiah) presented a session on Desmos today. Two reasons for this blog post:
1. It amazes me what social media is doing to my personal professional development.
2. The word about Desmos is spreading like wildfire.
Last November, my colleague Jarrod and I attended the NCTM regional conference in Minneapolis. We crudely estimated that easily more than half of people we talked to had never heard of Desmos (or simply thought that it was only an online graphing calculator).
That led us to feel the need to start spreading the word around our region. This February, Jarrod and I presented a session on Desmos at the SDCTM conference. Anywhere from 25-40 people attended our session. Once again, the theme was many had never heard about Desmos or the Desmos teacher website.
Based on what took place in Denver today via Twitter, another batch of math educators were exposed to Desmos and here is what some had to say:
I couldn't agree with these folks more. The word is out. Desmos is revolutionizing the way we can engage students in our math classrooms. I can't wait to see what 2016-2017 has in store for math education!
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