MATH can use technology, too!!

MATH can use technology, too!!PRESENTERS Dan Strohmyer John Barbier

DATE April 4, 2013

[email protected]@sioux-central.k12.ia.us

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1IntroDan Strohmyer11 years teaching ChemistrySioux Central CSD Technology Integration SpecialistEmail [email protected] @dstrohmyer

John Barbier20 years teaching Calculus and PrecalculusSioux Central CSDEmail [email protected] @MrBarbier

PurposeOur purpose is to show you what we do and the evolution of student thought, questions, and 21st century skills we are seeing in our classroom.

We use:Pod/Screencasting

Flipped Teaching 2.0

Collaborative tools like twitterWhy does this work?Research baseCognitive Load Theory (Ayres, 2006) front loading mastery level material reduces the cognitive load on students.Allows students to have all the background information before the discussion.During classroom time, you can apply and develop higher level thinking.

What this looks like in the classroom

The ExperimentThe Clay County Fair

Polished iMovies (and other tech projects) are great assessments, but are they really changing the way students think?

The Epiphany - The students learning at the fair were learning just as well as the kids learning in the classroom.

So..I (Mr. Barbier) started making 10-15 minute podcasts for each lesson in PreCalculus.

Originally to have a repository of lessons that students could access from my website when they are gone because of:School related absencesVacationsSick

Ive created a MonsterIt turned into much more than that

The incident of the hard take home quiz.The students were upset.

Video From the students point of viewhttp://www.screencast.com/t/oBmB4Dde

What this did to my classroom! I was excited about teaching in a new way for the first time in about 20 years

I realized that yes, Math can use technology, too

The math didnt change, my teaching style didWhy this is workingIf every student is in the proper mindset in your classroom, they will learn.But they might beHungryThinking about their girlfriend/boyfriendReally worried about the Physics text next hour

Having lessons recorded and posted allows students to learn on their schedule when they are in the right mindset.On the bus at a volleyball game 11:00 at night, etc.

What a Unit lesson plan looks like -

So this is an online classRight?Well not really.

We call it Flipped Teaching 2.0 (Ramsey Musallam)

Lecture (Discussion days)

Students working at own pace

CheckpointsThe Ipad/Twitter experimentWe started out using Jing (Free) to post iMovies about Calc problems and post them to the teachers website to have a repository for worked problems.

Then we started having them comment on each others completed work.

Now we are using iPads to work problems and updating directly to a twitter feed and having student comment on work.

Student side

Students use show me to work problems graph equations and submit to twitter for peer review.

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=6Rx2GjQ

Kind of unpolished huh?

From a Larger PerspectiveWhat this looks like in the classroom.

From the Teachers sideWe are using Camtasia (From Techsmith) and having the videos posted throught Screencast.com (also part of Techsmith)

Implications to a 1:1 ClassroomYou are not changing the MathYou are changing the strategy of teaching it. The instantaneous feedback allowed by technology enables high-level interaction and collaboration.All the rigidity of the classroom bell to bell is goneAllows two-way communication between instructor and studentsAllow instructor to hear student thinking

How can I do thisOne lesson at a timeChoose one and podcast itThen choose your favorite unit (or choose your least favorite and then you never have to lecture on it again)Ask the students if they like itScreencapture is your friend!!Questions -

MATH can use technology, too!!

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