Wikis


   A wiki like a blog can do many things to help benefit students in the classroom. Teachers can leave an open discussion up for students to all give their input. In relation to math a teacher could post a discussion about a math problem and ask students to explain how the got their answer. Many math problems can be approached from multiple angles. This will allow students to few how other students may have gotten a different answer just in a different way. This again is just a brief overview of how a wiki could benefit a classroom. Their are many more ways a wiki can benefit teachers and students.

Blogs?

   When speaking about digital tools for the class rooms, and technology in math, blogs come to mind. There are many ways that a blog can help students do better in the classroom. Blogs allow teachers to post homework, upcoming assignments, discussion boards, and even post videos to help students review their work again (maybe a screencast?). There are many free sites you can use. Maybe blogger.com?

This was just a quick video I made on screencast-o-matic.com. I just made a one minute video on a few basic options to show how easy it really is. I only recorded this video once so it is not a scripted video or anything. Just a quick sample of the program to see how it is also used please visit cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com

Before and Afters in Math on PhotoPeach
 Here is a few of some older technology compared to some new in a photopeach.

The Graphing Calculator 

      This graphing calculator is one of the newest on the market by Texas Instruments. Over the years Texas Instruments has played a very large role in making these calculators do equations and graphs in seconds that would take a normal human much longer to do. Like any type of technology graphing calculators has both pros and cons. The real question people general ask is whether technology like this benefits or hurts the students and their understanding of the topic being presented. Feel free to click on the word calculator above to see Texas Instruments official website.

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