Literacy in the Math and Science Classroom

How can technology help us teach?

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Skills - the focus is on…

FlexibilityInnovationProblem SolvingCollaborationInterpretationEvaluation and AnalysisCommunication

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The Core Subjects

In addition to our content:- Global Awareness- Financial, Economic and

Entrepreneurial Literacy- Civic Literacy- Health Literacy

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Technology…

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Hard Information versus Knowledge

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Maximize the Opportunities Unique to School

The phrase “technology and education” usually means inventing new gadgets to teach the same old stuff in a thinly disguised version of the same old way. - Seymour Papert

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Our focus today:

- Using technology to “do math” or to “do science”

- Maximizing classroom time

- Collaboration

- Organization for students

If mathematics is a way of making sense of the world, computing is a way of making

mathematics. – Gary S. Stager

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Math is fun power. - written by 2nd grader Clara on the back of her math worksheet

Powerful Software

• GeoGebra• Fathom• Maple• Logger Pro• Stella

Maximizing classroom time…

Jing – for homework solutions and demonstrations

Online homework practice and collaboration – OneNote, WebAssign, Maple TA

Student Collaboration and Discussion…

Wikis -

Diigo -

Organization

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Manipulating and ExploringNumbers and Data

ManyEyes Wolfram Alpha Google Tables

WikiLabs

WikiBooks

Google Docs

Current Events

Custom Search EngineDiigo or Fleck

VoiceThread

Glogster

Stella

Video Analysis

vPython