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Use of Technology & Digital Tools for Math Learning
Use of Technology & Digital Tools for Math Learning
Consider: Incorporating technology in mathematics classrooms enables educators to craft powerful collaborative learning experiences that support problem solving and flexible thinking. With strategic integration of both content-specific and content-neutral technology, students and teachers can construct their learning together in authentic ways that elevate mathematics learning.
Content-neutral Technology
Content-neutral Technology
Includes tools such as virtual whiteboards, handheld clickers, and student collaboration apps. Virtual whiteboard and websites promote self reflection, enable students to make their learning visible and share and connect ideas, and have been linked with high-level student thinking and teacher questioning.
Discuss:
Discuss:
How you currently leverage technology in math instruction. How do you use both content-specific and content-neutral technologies?
Content-Specific Technology | Virtual Tools & Representations
Content-Specific Technology | Virtual Tools & Representations
Virtual manipulatives can be used as a part of the Concrete-Representational-Abstract (C-R-A) learning progression. These manipulatives are important tools for teacher modeling and demonstration, and provide students access to manipulatives both inside and outside of the school day via computers and other mobile devices (NCSM, 2013).
Try this:
Try this:
Scroll down in the Pearson Learning Tools link to use the whole number relational rods, represent the the following...
Visualize a line of rods that is 28 units long. Which whole number rods would you use to show a length of 28 units?Share with a partner
How much greater is 57 than 39? Use the whole number rods to show your math thinking. Write a number sentence on a post-it note that matches your actions with the rods.
How might your use the rods to change the representation to decimal number rods to show how much greater .57 is than .39?
Technology that Fosters Deep Mathematical Learning
Technology that Fosters Deep Mathematical Learning
When used appropriately technology can be effective in the math classroom. Research indicates that content-specific apps and websites that focus on math learning with the use of virtual manipulatives are highly effective, and in some cases more efficient than physical manipulatives.
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Try this:
Dynamic geometry for teaching on https://www.sfu.ca/geometry4yl.html . You can explore these interactive sketches without downloading any software. Read the following lesson Discrete Symmetry, Lesson One and explore the SketchPad below.
How does using the Web SketchPad provide a more precise and dynamic application of symmetry?
What kind of learning does this app afford that a hand drawn sketch does not?
Critical Use of Technology in Math Learning
Critical Use of Technology in Math Learning
The educational technology market is flooded with new apps, tech tools, and gadgets, and in some instances, teachers are commended for increased technology use whether it supports healthy math learning or not. Technology can have a truly positive impact on student learning, but it should not replace teaching or ignore research-based best practices for math instruction.
If we believe that students of mathematics need opportunities for discussing math, creating and connecting visuals, analyzing models, discovering patterns, and making generalizations, the technology that we introduce into our classrooms should match those values.
Watch the video below & discuss:
Watch the video below & discuss:
What does Dr. C. Bruce mean by from information to experience and from consumption to production? How could these ideas help guide us in our effective and critical use of technology in math learning?
Learning Design Planning
Learning Design Planning
There was a time when simply getting technology into the hands of our students was a goal, but the time has come to slow down and plan for technology integration that truly supports healthy and productive mathematics learning.
How might we plan to leverage digital as an instructional practice and as a high impact strategy?
Try this:
Try this:
Redesign a math lesson using the Learning Design Planning Template below (make a copy first and save to your own drive).
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