1. Has your attitude towards the use of technology in mathematics teaching changed since you started this course. Explain.
2. Share an "aha" moment that you encounter with your technology.
At the start of the class, I was unsure what I thought about using technology in my future classroom. I wasn't sure if I could assign homework and expect everyone to have the software or the resources to access and complete the homework. It all depended on where I would be teaching and what the school's resources were. These questions still remain in my mind, but I feel like I would want to try harder to push to use technology in my classroom. After seeing some of the benefits of mathematical technology, I feel that using technology will benefit the students. I still am questioning how easy it will be for my students to use it outside of the class, but I am hoping that there is something that I can do to help them.
I am not sure if I have experienced an "aha" moment with my technology. I feel that the knowledge that I have learned about TinkerPlots haven't been so surprising. TinkerPlots makes learning how to use it easy. I don't think I have had very many "aha" moments because they have made their software so easy to learn. I have been doing a lot of the activities from the book that you let me borrow, and that has also helped me learn TinkerPlots. It walks you through each activity and gives you instructions on what to do and what it will look like. This has helped me learn very smoothly and I think that this is why I have not experienced any "aha" moments while using TinkerPlots.
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You raise a valid concern about using technology outside of class. I am dealing with this in both of my other classes - how much I can require/expect from students. At least my students here at BSU have access to the computers.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was teaching HS, my students usually made the effort to get to the lab to finish activities. It was the one homework they would get done, since they liked using GSP.
Glad to hear TP is going okay for you. See if you can recreate some of these data sets and get deeper into the use of sliders and filters.