Friday, July 16, 2010

How might I incorporate technology in my teaching?

3. How might you incorporate it? I am absolutely sold on the use of Interactive Sharing technology for the classroom. As a MS Math teacher I see excellent benefit from its use. For example, both Beaverton and Portland school systems use the Michigan State Connected Math Project textbooks. This is an excellent Constructed Math series but it lacks the backup problem examples and equations that are an important component of traditional math text books. Parents find it difficult to help their students if they are dependent on the notes their student took during a connected math manipulative demonstration. Backup is needed for students when they are absent and amplification is needed for students who didn't get the concept first time around. I had thought of sending a weekly email to parents to keep them up to date on what's happening in the classroom. I now see that a web site with a weekly blog and posted lessons is a much more efficient way to manage this information. Further it gets around many of the problems of application mismatch and text only email access.

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  1. You are so right when it comes to using these tools for parent comments and for those kids who are absent.

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