Why are you participating in 23 Things? What do you hope to learn? What new insights did you have during Thing 1? How does writing on the Internet, knowing anyone could read it, change how you write or feel about writing?
During our "welcome back" staff meeting our principal told us about this conference. I thought it sounded very useful. As a person who once considered herself very tech savvy, I have found that I am suddenly barely tech literate in my students' eyes. That is not good as far as I am concerned, and I am working to understand what they know so that I can help them use it more effectively and more responsibly. Plus, if they are using it anyway, why not force them to use it for educational purposes. (eventually they will have to use them for professional purposes, why not start now)
I really enjoyed the video in Thing 1. It really made me think about what I do and how I teach. Sometimes I feel like math teachers are left behind in all the "do something new" or "try something different" pushes. How do you teach some of the mundane math tasks differently? At what point can you do it differently, and when does it have to be the same old stuff? To that end I really liked the example of using text messaging to collect data, so much connected to their lives than a random number generator or calculator application.
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You'd be surprised at how many ways you'll be able to use these new tools in your teaching of math. Being a former math teacher, I sometimes wish I were back in the classroom today so I could try them out. Looking forward to hearing your ideas as you progress through the 23 Things. Welcome aboard.
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