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The Tech Toolbox for Teachers
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Joshua HarnwellAssistant Head of MathematicsHarnwellJ@knox.nsw.edu.au
Technology in Mathematics Education
“My Favourite Lesson” @ Roseville College
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Automation
ICT is about making my life easier!
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Joshua HarnwellAssistant Head of MathematicsHarnwellJ@knox.nsw.edu.au
Communicating with parents and students
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Tracking HomeworkMonday, 10 October 2011
The idea is to use recycling paper to print calendars on.
http://www.re-print.me/
Print one for each class and put it up on the wall. The teacher (or a student) can write
the homework each day.
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The move to online homework tracking
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1. Use TwInbox to post to twitter2. Get RSS Feed from Twitter
3. Use twitterfeed.com to post to facebook page
http://www.twitter.com/http://www.facebook.com/
Communicate homework and vital information to students and parents
http://tinyurl.com/mrharnwell2011 and http://www.twitter.com/mrharnwell
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OneNote > My Lessons > Demo
Over to OneNote…
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OneNote > My Lessons > Demo
Over to OneNote…
Sync with Sharepoint OR Web via Skydrive
Students (and parents) can access directly!
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Parents want to help their son with homework?
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DEC (Dept of Ed and Communities) has developed a site to help parents know what
students are doing in schools
http://www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/
There are some quick factsheets which student may find helpful when revising.
Example.
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Joshua HarnwellAssistant Head of MathematicsHarnwellJ@knox.nsw.edu.au
Flipping the Classroom
“My Favourite Lesson” @ Roseville College
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Flipping the Classroom
Lecture part of the lesson at home.
More engaging, interesting activities in class.
Example: Year 8 Number Plane Graphs- Tick Sheet- Screencast Videos (recorded using
http://screenr.com)- Quizzes and solutions (assessment for
learning)
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Flipping the classroom: Feedback
Did you like the freedom in how you could learn in this topic?
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Flipping the classroom: Feedback
How good do you think your understanding was of this topic, compared to the way you usually learn?
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Flipping the classroom: Feedback
Feedback from a parent…
“I want you in front of the class, teaching!”
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Flipping the classroom: Feedback
Comments from students:
I hated this topic doing it on the computer and thought it was a terrible way to learn
i really disliked learning by myself, id rather be tought by the teacher and be given and forced to do homework. i felt i didn't know anything for this topic
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Flipping the classroom: Feedback
Comments from students:
When he made us choose our homework, i feel i didn't do enough.
I liked how could work at our own pace but I need to work faster if I want to achieve better results.
I liked how we could chose to do what subjects we did and did not understand.
I really liked that we could choose what to do and then move on if we know the rest.
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ScreencastingMonday, 10 October 2011
Screencasting is recording a video of your computer screen, while you are working
on it. It can also record sound.
http://www.screenr.com/ (online)http://www.camstudio.org/ (software)http://www.techsmith.com/jing/ (free/paid)
Flipping the classroom
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Joshua HarnwellAssistant Head of MathematicsHarnwellJ@knox.nsw.edu.au
Blogging with Year 8
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Data: Graphs and Tables
Task: Decide on a topic that you are interested. Write a blog post on Scholaris explaining why you are interested in this topic and what you can investigate statistically.In future posts, you will need to create and upload graphs to your blog.Find a source of data that you can use to investigate your topic. You may like to consider the following:• Cars• iPhone / iPad• Harry Potter – IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926084/business • NRL http://stats.rleague.com/rl/rl_index.html• Cricket http://cricket.com.au/stats-scores • Climate Change http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/• Music http://www.ariacharts.com.au/• Radio http
://au.nielsen.com/products/nmr_radio_radioratings_archives.shtml
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Making it Web2.0
• Students were directed as to whose blog they had to comment on…
• Example 1• Example 2• Example 3
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Joshua HarnwellAssistant Head of MathematicsHarnwellJ@knox.nsw.edu.au
Teaching and Learning Applets
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Applets
• This is where I started, putting technology into my lessons
• Teacher Applets
• Students Applets
• Lets students visualise Mathematics
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Applets: Examples
• GeogebraTube• Student Applets:
– Isometric Drawing Tool– Constructions
• Creative Commons Images: Slope
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BookmarkingMonday, 10 October 2011
Online Social Bookmarking lets you easily store bookmarks in one place (backed up),
search them and share them with others.
http://www.delicious.com/ http://www.diigo.com/https://bookmarks.google.com/Store your links, so that you can find them
againShare links with colleagues – each department to have a diigo group?
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Joshua HarnwellAssistant Head of MathematicsHarnwellJ@knox.nsw.edu.au
Other ideas for teaching Mathematics
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Google SketchupMonday, 10 October 2011
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Google Earth
Runway numbers are chosen based on the magnetic heading of the runway. In areas where the compass indication are unreliable the true north heading is, denoted by a T prefix. Example: Sydney Airport NS Runway is on a bearing of
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Google Earth
The Pentagon (US) – Is it a regular pentagon?
Check Angles and check sides
“Exmouth Cape Tourist Village” – (look slightly to the north)
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Google Earth: 2D Measurement
Have students create a field diagram (by taking measurements) to work out the area of the school, or their home.
Find the area of the sector below, by taking appropriate measurements. (This is at the Athletic Centre at Sydney Olympic Park).
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To easily find the perimeter and area, you can use a Google Earth Add-on called GEPath. This can be used to check calculations. Find the perimeter and area of your
school. How big is your school oval? Most likely, it will be close to 1 Ha.
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Google Earth: 3D Measurement
Find the Great Pyramid at Giza – by taking appropriate measurements, what is the surface area and volume? (Its height is approximately 139 m). You can also show 3D Buildings to get a good look.
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Google Earth: Parabolas
To the east of Lydd Airport, KENT, United Kingdom. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_mirror for information on these fantastic structures!
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Google DocsMonday, 10 October 2011
Use google docs to collaborate for documents or spreadsheets
http://www.offisync.com/http://tinyurl.com/googlecloudconnect
I check homework, using my iPhone and then use OffiSync to open the Google
Spreadsheet in Excel
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Microsoft Word and Maths
• Equations Suck!• Microsoft Math• Symbols ALT-0176
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ComicsMonday, 10 October 2011
Create a cartoon / comic strip. Drag and drop the speech bubbles, people and scenes.
http://www.bitstrips.com/
Create a cartoon yourself for a topic, or get students to present their work in cartoon
form.
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Copy part of a pictureMonday, 10 October 2011
Copy parts of images or parts of your screen.
Microsoft Office > Insert Screen Shot > Screen ClippingSnipping Tool
Modify difficult diagramsAnd make the background transparent
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Convert PDF Files to Word Documents
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Convert PDF documents, with diagrams, into word documents to edit.
http://www.pdftoword.com/
Example
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Wolfram AlphaMonday, 10 October 2011
How many hairs are on a human head?Solve 2x+10=15
http://wolframalpha.com/
Students can investigate a topic, taking difficult mathematics out of the equation –
and explaining how to do it!
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Skype
• One of my students in Year 11 Extension 1 Mathematics was scheduled to have an operation on his knee and came up with a brilliant plan to not fall behind. The course goes very quickly and missing any lesson can be difficult – we were going to cover Superannuation using a GP.
• He organised with a friend to skype in from home to watch the lesson as we progressed.
• For part of the lesson, he was sitting on a table in front of the projector screen (well… the laptop he was skyped into).
• For the rest of the lesson, he sat in his usual seat.• I wonder if UStream would have been an easier alternative
– although it would not have allowed him to put up his hand and ask any questions.
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Hardware
• Bluetooth mouse!!• Monitor• Lectern• Eye-fi Card
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Hardware
• The future of Mathematics Education…
The Samsung Windows 8 Tablet
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