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We live in the 21st century, and technology is changing quickly and changing the world quickly. Students must learn to use technology wisely and safely.
Students should also be learning how to create things using technology, so that they can exercise their creativity, too, to create new content and tools.
Below is the Technology Responsible use Policy, which has been created by a team of CIS teachers and administrators, and has borrowed some elements from the TDSB.
Kahoot!
Kahoot!
Kahoot is a simple app/website where students can do online quizzes and tests with their mobile devices. Kahoot is a useful web-based tool for engaging students in a simple quiz competition. Students must connect with a Smartphone or other Wifi-enabled device in order to participate. A series of questions with multiple-choice answers are provided by the teacher, like a quiz. The quiz is assigned a code, and the teacher distributes that code to all of the students so they login and participate. When each question comes up, students press a button corresponding to which of the 4 multiple-choice answers they think is the correct one. Points are awarded for the correct answer, but also for the speed in which the correct answers are given. At the end, a winner is declared.
In this class, we may use Kahoot! to help practise concepts that we've learned or even to introduce new concepts.
This is the link to click when you want to participate in a Kahoot! quiz
You just need to enter the game code, then your username, and you are ready to go!
Desmos
Desmos
Desmos is a free website that allows you to graph mathematical functions and expressions. You need to login with your Google account, so that you can save your work in your account, and you can submit graphs and work through Google Classroom. This will be useful when we study linear relations, analytical geometry. y=mx+b, and properties of equations of lines.
This video introduces the Flipped classroom model. In this class, we are using some elements of the Flipped classroom by watching videos online at home.
Step 1. Students watch videos online at home. They take notes, pause the video, watch it again if they need to, so they can learn at their own pace.
Step 2. Students work on some practise problems at home to make sure they actually understand the concepts.
Step 3. Students come to class where the teacher consolidates their learning briefly.
Step 4. Student work on more problems and more advanced problems while the teacher comes around to help those students that need more help. Also, stronger students can help weaker students improve.
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