Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity: Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources (NETS-T 1b)
I plan to improve the engagement of student involvement in solving real world issues by using digital resources on a regular basis. I plan to use one day a week to pose a real world problem that involves the math topics for the week in hopes to increase the engagement and understanding of the students. I will collect the problem and use the accuracy of the solution to gauge the successfulness of the lessons. I will look for students to receive an 85% or higher on the accuracy of their solution and I will ask the students to fill out a survey on a scale from 1-10 on how they enjoyed the task at hand. I will use these days to show the students how these math skills are used in the everyday lives of individuals and how digital resources are available to help solve these problems. We will spend the days in the computer lab during these lessons so they can have access to the internet and/or specific websites that I have found to aid in the solution of the problem presented. After each week, I will compile the scores of not only the accuracy to their solutions, but also their scale score on the activity. I will spend the next week searching for new online resources and ask colleagues for excellent resources that they have used in their classroom.
Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility: Advocate, model, and teach safe, legal and ethical use of digital information and technology including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources (NETS-T 4a)
I plan to promote documenting resources and teaching how to appropriately cite information through modeling. I plan to revamp my lessons with citations from the sites and books that I am retrieving pictures and problems from. I will plan on citing 80% of my information immediately through revising my smartboard lessons and worksheets and then I will cite 100% of my resources on handouts and lessons that I make from this point forward. I will monitor my progress by using a chart to keep track of what lessons I have revised and which lessons are new so I will know in the future which ones I need to continue to revamp in the future. I will use the methods of citation (APA style) that we use in our program at Walden and make a point to check for changes in APA citation at the beginning of each month.
Resources:
International Society for Technology in Education. (2008). National education standards for teachers (NETS-T). Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/Libraries/PDFs/NETS_for_Teachers_2008_EN.sflb.ashx
Jamie,
ReplyDeleteI think that math is a wonderful subject to add
real world problem solving to. Sometimes math can be a little dry, adding some real world problem solving will make your lessons come alive for your students. They will be able to make more connections to the concepts that you are teaching.
I am also working on citing and documenting resources. It is important to model these skills so that our students can do the same. I think it will teach them a new respect for the efforts of others.
Dawn Miller
Dawn,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you... I think that real world connections will help the students see how math is all around us and they can apply it to the real world situations that they might encounter in their future. I am going to continue to work on this and hope to find some good connections over time.
I also think that citing these resources will be very helpful for the students to see the relevance and importnance of the work of others. It will take some effort to make it habit, but worth it.
Jamie
Jamie,
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great GAME plan to have, and many teachers need to have the same plan. My students struggle the most with math and have comments such as "why do I need to learn this?" Having the real world connections is what my students see in their state testing as well. They do not have problems they need to answer, they have paragraphs with situations that they need to pull information from, set up their own problem, and THEN solve the problem. I think I might have to have a day to incorporate the real-world problems as well!
Laura