At first I had doubts about using a blog in my math
classroom. But the more I have read and looked into how blogs can help, I am
kind of excited about starting one. One way I will use a blog for my class is
to post links and videos to helpful sites in what I am covering for class. I
think giving the student options of where to get help gives the student
ownership to their education. These various options might explain and/or bridge
the gap that my in class teaching has not cover.
Blogs are great way to communicate. As a teacher, I can use
blogs to provide assignments, grading rubrics and send out reminders. Since
these blogs are open to everyone on the internet, parents may also look to see
what is being done, assigned and required of their children. Parental
involvement is key and blogs are a quick easy way to connect the parents with
the classroom. Another way of communication would be between students. Students
may ask for help, provide help and even just bounce ideas with one another.
This can help eliminate the shy student falling behind because they are afraid
to ask.
Chapter 2 states, “blogging increases learning, reading and thinking because it
promotes critical, analytical, analogical, intuitive, associational and
creative thinking.” This holds extremely true in the case of math.
While math is extremely in the computational field, with blogging, students
will have to reach deep into their understanding of reading and writing to
communicate. Reading and writing math is a different due to how technical the
subject is. By communicating on blogs, the formal mathematical language will be
used more often and therefore their academic language comprehension will
increase. Can’t wait to see the results.
I agree that blogs are a good way of communicating. I like that you will be using videos and helpful links in you teaching. I am finding out that many of the publishing companies we already working with have developed new strands for their educational materials.
ReplyDeleteMath and reading seem to be the two subjects that everyone seems to focus on, and with blogs math doesn't have to be all about solving a problem to get a final answers. By adding an interdisciplinary dimension, without students perhaps even realizing it, blogging could maybe take away some of the pressures of test scores and bring some fun back to learning. By viewing math in a different spectrum, a better understanding might be formed.
ReplyDeleteSaul Soto
ReplyDeleteI didn’t think you could use blogs for math but you brought up good points. It will help the student to understand more a problem when the teachers posts links and other resources to give students more practice on how to workout the problems.