Our day 3 started off with a program meeting. Essentially, the program meeting is to get a chance to see what and how other members of the team is doing, mostly on preparing the conference. This was also the opportunity to introduce us Teacher Candidates to the rest of the Learning Exchange event coordinators.

In the afternoon, we continued to make button blankets from yesterday. While we were making button blankets, we have been meeting patrons during our drop-in session. I have to say… it was very interesting chatting with them. What did we chat about? All sorts of things. I never knew how knowledgeable those patrons are, but depending on the topic of interest of course.

For instance, I participated in the math club for the part of the afternoon on the ground floor drop-in area. The president of the math club, one of many patrons. He showed us a variety of math-related educational websites, pictures, and video clips; many that I have yet to explore myself! I could see how enthusiastic the members are in the math club. As an another example, one of the videos we were watching was a TED Talk by a high school science (aerospace program) teacher in Texas named Colin R. Lang. I’ve learned that Mr. Lang has taught students project-based education/learning, where he inspired hundreds of students to participate in building rockets by making connections to the real world using the principles of mathematics and science. It was certainly eye-opening TED Talk, especially in the field of education! Without the math club at LE, I would not have known about this amazing way of teaching and learning, and how important math is to us.

We will be continuing to visit the Drop-ins whenever we can!