Using Twitter To Extend My Math Lessons. Using Twitter To Extend My Math Lessons. My Favorite Teachers Use Social Media: A Student Perspective. My Favorite Teachers Use Social Media: A Student Perspective. Using Instagram in Math Class. Using Instagram in Math Class. Instagram is a free, fun, and simple way to make and share photos on the iPhone and iPad.
Students pick from one of several filtered effects to breathe new life into mobile photos. Students can transform everyday moments in the classroom in see and to works of art. Students can show photos in a simple photo stream with friends, classmates, teachers, and family. There are some examples below where you can use Instagram in the classroom:Problem SolvingTurn a dry subject with numbers and formulas, and connect it to art through visual expression.
Younger students can capture mathematical concepts through visual problem solving re-enactments (like word problems) or even snapping photos of complex formulas designed on poster board.Classroom AccountEvery month, take a few photos of the student’s progress. Teacher PhotosParents and community members love to know about the teachers who work in the schools. Download the app here: Instagram. Blogging in Math Class: A Q&A with Casey Douglas. Blogging in Math Class: A Q&A with Casey Douglas. Image: Dennis Skley, vie Flickr.
Last year, I had my math history students write a blog. The course counts as a writing credit, so blog posts seemed like good short writing assignments. But what about blogging in a math class that’s just a math class? My academic sibling Casey Douglas, who teaches at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, incorporates blogging into his Foundations of Math class, and I decided to ask him a few questions about it. I hope other teachers interested in class blogging will get some ideas from him. EL: First, can you say a little bit about the class that’s blogging: size, typical student majors, main topics covered, main learning goals? CD: This is class called Foundations of Mathematics, a relatively fancy name for a standard proofs-writing course. EL: What are your goals for students’ blog posts? CD: This class was first devised quite a while before I arrived at St.
EL: Is this the first time you’ve had students blog in class? CD: There are so many to share. And You Thought it Could Not Be Done: Blogging in Math. And You Thought it Could Not Be Done: Blogging in Math. Sometimes I am still amazed that not more Language Arts teachers have taken a good look at blogging.
It seems such a match made in heaven: giving students an authentic audience for their writing…incorporating modern skills of writing & reading in digital spaces… (hyperlinking, transmedia, research, etc.)platform designed for feedback It surprised me even more (in a good way), when I saw a Math teacher starting to take advantage of the primarily thought of “blogging is about writing- hence for a writing class” platform. The Math teacher instinctively understood that blogging is not just about writing.
It is about “presenting” your work, your thoughts and products to a large audience FOR feedback. In a previous blog post, Telling a Story with Data, you read about Laurel Janewicz‘ upgrade of her traditionally taught lesson of data analysis, graphing and misleading graphs. Blogs played a major role in the upgrade. The rubric for the blog post had included the following requirements: Related. Using Twitter in a Math Class. Using Twitter in a Math Class. The Art of Turning Math into a Social Learning Experience. The Art of Turning Math into a Social Learning Experience. Integrating Instagram into Math Class.
Integrating Instagram into Math Class. “When will we ever use this in real life?”
This is the common question that many teachers hear – and my 7th grade Pre-Algebra class is no exception. However, in my classroom, I put the ball back into the students’ court and challenge them to find the answer for me. As teachers, we know that students need to learn concepts as building blocks to more advanced concepts for their school career. But for students, that is a frustrating answer to hear. One of my answers to alleviate that frustration, and to also give students a deeper understanding of the concept, is to issue a challenge. The tool that connects the students’ work and provides an authentic audience is Instagram. In my classroom, I provide a number of ways for students to earn back points they may have lost on formal assessments throughout the year. The creator of the Instagram problem is given a full free homework submission which may, in some cases, make up for a missed/forgotten assignment.
Using social media to engage and develop the online learner in self-determined learning. Using social media to engage and develop the online learner in self-determined learning. Abstract Social media technology provides educators with an opportunity to engage learners in the online classroom, as well as to support development of learner skills and competencies.
This case study explores the role of social media in promoting cognitive and meta-cognitive learner development while using a heutagogical teaching and learning approach. Research was conducted using questionnaires and interviews and incorporated the perspectives of both students and instructors on the use of social media in the online classroom and how media influenced interaction and learner development. Results indicate that students perceived specific social media (Google Docs, mind mapping and e-portfolio software) in conjunction with a unique learning activity as influencing specific cognitive and meta-cognitive skills (constructing new knowledge, reflecting on course content, understanding individual learning process). Keywords: social media; heutagogy; e-learning; self-determined learning Keywords. 3 6 Social Media in the Math Classroom.
3 6 Social Media in the Math Classroom.