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MassCUE and M.A.S.S. Technology Conference 2009

Wednesday, October 28
Session 4: 3:10-4:00

Math + Web 2.0 = Learning 4 All:
Integrating Technology into Math Curriculum (Gr. 5-9)
(pdf) or (docx)

This Web 2.0 workshop brings in teachers and technology integration specialists from several Western Massachusetts schools and districts to showcase examples of tech-rich projects they created as participants in a 2008-09 DESE grant to Hampshire Educational Collaborative (HEC) of Northampton and the Technology in Education Partnership of Western Massachusetts (TEP).
Carol S. Holzberg, Technology Coordinator, Greenfield Public Schools

Presenters

Carol S. Holzberg, PhD, Introduction (3:10-3:20)

Hatfield Elementary School (3:20-3:30)

Northampton High School (3:30-3:40)

Greenfield Public Schools (3:40-4:00)

Project Summary
In 2008-09, Hampshire Educational Collaborative (Northampton, MA) and the Technology in Education Partnership of Western Massachusetts applied for a Technology Enhancement Competitive Grant (Fund Code 170-B) to integrate technology into the math curriculum for Grades 5-9. The project sought to provide 48 hours of professional development to math teachers in nine partnering districts. Participants would receive professional development training in the use of Web-based free and open source tools to deepen their understanding of mathematical content and instructional technology.

We chose to focus on Web 2.0 tools (aka the Read/Write Web) because these could be used to extend the school day. They would also enable teachers and students to collaborate and share work both in and out of the classroom. Training would be hybrid in nature, combining face-to-face instruction with online content posted on the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s MassOne Moodle site. Participants would receive an iPod Nano, a Belkin TuneTalk microphone, and a stipend in return for three technology-infused math-based lessons and participation in both the face-to-face (seven sessions) and online training (November 2008, through June 2009).

Project Objectives

Mathematics:

  • Explore data standards from the Massachusetts Frameworks
  • Understand the meaning of the standard
  • Convert the standard to student-friendly language
  • Chart the standard in relationship to skills and representations
  • Consider the general framework for understanding the Data Analysis process
  • Engage in hands-on activities with the goal of describing the shape of a data set, noting individual features of the data and describing the overall data distribution
  • Explore the components of effective lesson plan design and prepare three lessons
  • Experience all phases of the data analysis process, including specifying how the data will be collected, constructing various representations, and finding measures of central tendency (descriptive statistics)
  • Compare and contrast representations and analysis using numerical and categorical data analysis
  • Organize the analysis of a complex data set
  • Construct a representation that communicates how the data are to be compared
  • Identify the advantages and disadvantages of different representations of the same data in light of data interpretation

Technology Integration:

  • Learn to use Web-based collaborative tools such as
  • GoogleDocs: Documents and Spreadsheet (http://docs.google.com/) A Microsoft Office suite alternative
  • SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net/). Share presentations, documents and PDF files
  • Delicious (http://delicious.com/). Tag, save, manage and share Web pages from any computer with an Internet connection
  • Diigo (http://www.diigo.com/). Tag, save, manage, highlight, add comments to, and share Web pages from any computer with an Internet connection
  • Quizlet (http://quizlet.com/). Create and share electronic flashcards on a topic of your choosing. Use flashcards others have created.
  • Jing (http://www.jingproject.com/). Screen capture and annotation; record screen activity. Share your captured screens and movies.
  • Camtasia v3.1.3 (http://download.techsmith.com/camtasiastudio/enu/312/camtasiaf.exe). Free Windows-only screen capture and recorder.
  • Nicenet Internet Classroom Assistant (http://www.nicenet.org). A no frills Web-based classroom management system, facilitating Internet conferencing and collaboration, personal messaging, scheduling, and link/resource sharing. Used by teachers to create single question, real time classroom surveys
  • Become familiar with interactive online mathematical resources, such as:

    Plop-It! (http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/PlopIt/). Users can experiment with measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode) by using a bar graph

    Java applets from the Shodor Interactivate Web site (http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/) and math games from Math Playground (http://mathplayground.com/)

  • Explore the lesson plan resources available at Web sites such as:

    Verizon Thinkfinity (http://www.thinkfinity.org/)

    IBM Many Eyes (http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/). Information visualizations that help people collectively make sense of data.

    National Science Digital Library (http://nsdl.org/). Online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

    Wolfram Educational Portal (http://www.wolfram.com/edu/). Collection of K-12 resources for science and math, including animated demonstrations.

  • Learn how to make and apply podcasts in the classroom to deepen mathematical comprehension with tools such as:

    iTunes and iTunes Podcasts (both audio and video) (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewGrouping?id=33) , and iTunes University (http://deimos3.apple.com/indigo/main/main.xml)

    Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) and the LAME Library to export audio encoded as MP3 from Audacity (http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/)

    Gcast (http://www.gcast.com/). Free storage for your MP3s up to 200MB (that's 25-50 songs!). Also offers free podcast music.

    Podbean.com (http://www.podbean.com/) will also host your educational podcasts for free. It offers 100MB storage (100 minutes audio podcast, 25 minutes video podcast with average quality) with 5GB monthly bandwidth (traffic to and downloading from your site can't exceed 5GB).

    Blip.tv (http://blip.tv/) -For budding videobloggers, podcasters and tv producers. Free hosting, plus tools to send work to your blog, MySpace, del.icio.us, Yahoo! Video, and iTunes. If you have a video ready to upload (in QuickTime or Windows Media Video format), upload by clicking the "Upload" link at the top of every page. To make a video private, you need a Pro account (pro accounts cost $8 a month or $96 for fourteen months(. If you don't have your video in an uploadable format (compressed QuickTime and Windows Media, no uncompressed DV or MPEG-2 video), you can use a tool like Windows Movie Maker (which comes with Windows) or iMovie (it comes with a Mac) to create a file you can share. Take the walkthrough tour to see if this tool makes sense for you (http://blip.tv/walkthrough/).

• Other technology tools and Web-based resources introduced included:

Massachusetts Tech Standard #2: Demonstrate the responsible use of technology and an understanding of ethics and safety issues in using electronic media at home, in school, and in society.

  • Ethics and Safety
  • Cell Phone Smarts
  • Cyberbullying
  • Internet Safety
  • Cheating
  • Plagiarism
  • Copyright and Fair Use
  • Web Literacy

21st Century Skills
Source: Partnership for 21st Century Skills (2009).
Framework for 21st Century Learning. Retrieved on April 26, 2009 from http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/documents/framework_flyer_updated_april_2009.pdf

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