Sunday, October 4, 2009
One of the questions I included on my survey was, "For which content area(s) do you feel technology is the easiest to incorporate?" Science and language arts were the top picks, but social studies and math were not much further behind. As a math teacher, I do not feel worried about not knowing enough possible ways to use technology with my students. I feel like I possess the knowledge, tools, and resources to do many exciting things that involve technology. My problem, however, is incorporating the nine best strategies that our book talks about into my mathematics classroom. And from what I am learning, just throwing random technology into the classroom that is not in the context of one of these strategies will probably not be as beneficial to the students. I think other math teachers would agree that our content area is not the easiest for creating student-centered projects that many of these strategies seem to be about (and isn't it ironic that in our textbook there are a ton of cool examples and illustrations, but none that are from the math content area, at least not from what I noticed). I have gone to conferences about incorporating more strategies like these nine into the math classroom, but when I come back to the realities of needing to teach objectives at a certain pace and needing to be on track with the other teachers in my building who teach the same courses I do, sometimes these strategies don't seem very practical.
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I see were you are coming from the math teachers in my building would totally agree with you on this.
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