Midterm reflection

Before coming to this school to continue my studies, I spent four years as a middle school mathematics teacher at a junior high school. During my teaching days, especially in geometry and algebra classes, I didn't have much time or many tools to create visual content and models to present intuitive concepts to students, which hindered their understanding. After graduating, I will also return to mainland China to continue teaching. Through taking this course, I feel like I have learned a lot of useful things that I can apply in my future teaching.

Geogebra is very similar to the geometry drawing board I used before, but Geogebra allows for collaborative online tasks, making it convenient for teachers to check students' work. It also provides numerous templates that can be directly utilized, which I believe can alleviate a significant amount of future workload. Personally, I find Desmos to be extremely user-friendly, especially for graphing functions. It provides an intuitive display of function graphs simply by inputting the function. Unfortunately, although most of the software we have learned can support collaborative tasks, teaching resources in mainland China are not yet fully developed. As a result, it may only be allowed for teachers to use these tools, and students may not have the opportunity for hands-on activities in the classroom.🤗

Although students in mainland China now can not fully utilize these software lecture, but with the covid19, and the development of technology, the future of teaching will certainly use more and more electronic devices, so I think that in the design of teaching, we can use TPACK to integrate technology and teaching together,  For example, in our first presentation, we explained the properties of the quadratic function, originally we wanted students to use a ruler to draw their own graphs, exercise their hands-on ability, in fact, when they have mastered geogebra, they will not use the traditional way of graphing at all, but this convenience will bring them trouble in the exam? My personal opinion is that it should, so I wonder if there is any way to make students learn math in a very intuitive and clear, but also exercise their practical hands-on ability.