Math 371 Technology for STEM Educators

             In all of my education classes thus far, we have spent some time discussing alternative forms of assessment. It seems so effortless for the English, history, and art education majors to form a long list of assessment options. However, it truly feels like mathematics is the most difficult class to avoid using tests and quizzes as a method for assessing students’ understanding of material. I do not think tests and quizzes should be ruled out altogether but I agree that other forms of formative and summative assessment should be used. This brings me to what we talked about this week in Math 371: online quizzes. Can online quizzes be considered an alternative form of assessment? Yes, and here’s why.               As a class, we took quizzes on the app called Socrative, Google Forms, and Quizziz. Though we did not use Kahoot! this week because we were all familiar with this app...

As a future educator in mathematics, the thing I fear the most is my students losing their ability and freedom to express themselves in my classroom. Comparatively speaking, math is one of the core subjects that seemingly limits students in this area. I innately think of the possibilities English students have, being able to express themselves through the words of their papers. Art students can display bits of their personalities and interests within their works. Math students…”Please find x .   And again…and again…and again.” And this fear becomes even more prominent in thinking of the math teachers who know only one way of solving problems, or only teaching their students one method to do so. It concerns me as I think of all my future right-brained students who are forced to sit within my class and try somehow to make sense of what they are expected to learn. I then think of the many future students who are categorized within one of the seven multiple intelligences that isn...

     Once again we started the Math 371 course by having students make a list of technology items that they wanted to learn.   I also included a few of my own and we came up with this list: Promethean Board & SMARTBoard TI-Nspire iPad—how to use these in math Free online resources—Desmos, Geogebra, electronic gradebooks, lesson planning software, interactive note-taking, etc. Blogs Twitter Pinterest Online Course management—Edmodo, Schoology, Moodle? Google Docs, Apps, and Add-ons Flipped Instruction Personalized Learning 3D printing Coding Microsoft Excel Teaching online high school math classes   Copyright laws regarding use of internet sources for teaching        Now comes my task of planning how to get all of this done in the course.   This is probably the hardest part for me when it comes to this course, although this list is fairly similar to last year’s so it may be easier.   Another cha...