This article was fascinating and really gave me some insights to helping children learning and learning from them as well. These teachers were really creative by getting the students involved in something local and bringing it into the classroom. This project seemed to be pretty labor intensive as far as collecting data, but technology made it a little easier. I believe that when you get the kids involved in something local it makes more personal and fun. I also thought it was interesting that the teacher noticed that when doing this project with her class that she was learning how the kids were thinking and learned with them. I would really enjoy doing something like this with my future class.
I really enjoy math so I think it would be interesting to do a project like this to get the children to really apply their knowledge to the real world and make them realize that school is important to their future. Math is not the most interesting subject, but maybe by making it more active by using field trips and technology we can make learning fun in all subjects.
I thought the use of mapping really helps kids because it forces them to make connections and learn cause and effect which is a subject that is extremely hard to teach. I don’t know why, but this article really made me excited about teaching. I think it is because I want my future student to really learn and how better to do that than doing activities like this one.
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I definitely agree that allowing students to become in something local and bringing the outside world into the classroom is a great idea for teachers. One challenge of a teacher is connecting and understanding each of her students. Like you said programs like these that allow the teachers to understand their students' ways of thinking can be very valuable for the teacher or aides in the classroom.
I agree too.I thought that this teacher was just the neatest. I would have loved to have done something interactive like this in the sixth grade.Who wants to learn things out of a text book? Way to go in involving a hands on activity.I also hope to be able to do something cool like this when I finally become a teacher.
It is almost unheard of for math teachers to take students away from the classroom and apply its many formulas that students spend their lives trying to memorize. I also enjoy math, but find it difficult to utilize education in lesson plans, which I would love to do if I had the knowledge. I agree with you in that we should use technology to make projects easier, rather than burden students with it.
In the school that I work in there is a wonderful math teacher. She applies methods you would never think a math teacher would apply. It works so well because she knows the students she works with and the methods they grasp concepts with. They still have to find ways to apply technology with her class but she does wonders in applying what students learn with the real world. I'm sure after being exposed to knowledge like the one we are being exposed to in this classroom, you will find ways to engage, apply and teach students. Best of luck!
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