Tablets, Tablets, Tablets!!

How they can be used for Teaching Mathematics

Carol Carruthers &

Sheona Duthie

OAME

May 14, 2011

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Presentation Outline

• How we got here• Using the Notebook Journal• Why pen-based tablet technology?• Using learning objects, applets or Web Quests• Why a DyKnow workspace –polling, share

control, submitting panels, status, chat… ?• Is there a pen-based tablet in your future?

Why Foundational Math?

• How was it developed?• Who takes it?• Focus – increased use of technology for

teaching and learning• Online textbook• Collaborative teaching and organization site

Using Learning Objects, Applets, and Web Quests

• Free Grain of Rice http://www.freerice.com/• Show me the Math! http://showthemath.org/• NLVM Balancing Equations

http://bit.ly/jOlCyB• Math.com Algebra worksheet generator

http://www.math.com/students/worksheet/algebra_sp.htm

Teaching in the Notebook Journal

• Word docs/ppt slides printed to Journal • Students download before class

2008 Higher Education HP Teaching for Technology Grant

• Seneca selected from 44 higher education institutions (370 applicants world wide)

• The $84 000 grant - 21 HP CompaqTablet PC’s, Microsoft® operating system, accessories

• HP Teaching for Technology Grant• Seneca HP site

Why Pen-Based Tablet Technology?

• Difficult to type math – keyboard restrictions• Student familiarity with pencil and paper• Easily corrected• Diagramming ideas, decision trees

DyKnow Software

• “DyKnow Vision software is an interactive teaching tool used to maximize class time, foster collaborative learning and promote effective studying”

• Funding by FASET and Academic Computing Services (ACS)

• A 2010 Post Secondary DyKnow Collaborative Software Grant recipient

What Level of Math do you Teach/Coach?

• A) Elementary• B) High School• C) College• D) University• E) Coach/Admin

Pen colour matters…

Send us your ideas of how you could use a tablet pc in your classroom! (session>submit panel>ok)

Submit panels-Student Work

Students - the temporary teacher (share control)/modeling/replay

Share Control – Student Work

Technological Hurdles

• Tablet PCs • Consistent wireless internet connection• Time constraints/benefits• Stylus vs. pen and virtual binder vs. paper• “…they (tablets) could be a very distracting

because it (takes) your mind away off lectures…when lectures becomes boring I tend to go on websites which is the worst thing I can do …”

Student Response

“…I actually did my work and it was done right and organized which helped for studying.”

“…I tend to pay attention more thus doing better in work and tests”

“…students can share answers anonymously, we can correct each other’s work.”

“I found that the shy students were more comfortable participating through the tablet and shared control in dyknow than standing up and speaking”.

Student opinion – Tablets/DyKnow

• AST students won 1st prize ($3000) for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il-k65CFqpE

• AST students won 2nd prize (50 DyKnow licenses) for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd7BsEF1x6g

• Special thanks to Ewan Gibson (AVS) Seneca Libraries

Special thanks to:

• The Applied Science and Technology Fundamentals (AST) and MTH 148 students

• Laurel Schollen – Associate Vice President Academic - Educational Excellence• James Humphreys– Chair SBSAC• Hassan Assiri – Director, Enterprise Services Management• Gino Franceschetti – ACS• Ewan Gibson - AVS • SBSAC, FIAT and FASET Faculty

Supported by a 2008 Higher Education HP Technology for Teaching Grant,a 2010 Post Secondary DyKnow Collaborative Software Grant,and by Seneca FASET and ACS