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By: Mike Cujes

Mike Cujes — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:55:00 +0000

I really enjoyed the presentation – I am always looking at new ways to include technology in my teaching and there were some new ideas in there that will help me evolve my teaching practices further.

I can’t wait to try the white board teaching method — I don’t have the room set up for it yet, but will make do with flipcharts/individual whiteboard tablets or something similar until I do. I know that the key for students wanting to improve in mathematics is to get them to do more maths.

The white board teaching method will:

* allow me to more easily monitor who is coping with the work and who is not,
* foster better working relationships between all students,
* be a welcome change for those students who struggle to sit still,
* no doubt surprise me in many ways with how well it works, and…

most importantly,

* ensure students work more problems in maths class, and have more mathematical conversations than they otherwise would.

Thanks again for the great presentation.

By: Holland Lincoln

Holland Lincoln — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:43:14 +0000

What great insight! I work for Wolfram|Alpha and am doing my best to spread the word to educators across the curriculum about how to leverage rather than run from Wolfram|Alpha. As Maria so clearly points out, students can easily find the answer, whether they use W|A or not, our challenge is how to assess their comprehension of the topic or concept. Technology requires us to redesign conventional assessment practices and leverage technology to advance learning.

Thanks for bringing this important issue to light!

By: Pete Welter

Pete Welter — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:53:15 +0000

Wonderful presentation. Your emphasis on the philosophy of using tech and on creating a framework in which to place the tools you mentioned was extremely valuable. The idea that tools like Wolfram Alpha change what we teach as well as how we teach is not something heard often enough in the math education community.

As a preservice secondary math teacher (although I’m coming into education after 25 years developing software), I continue to be amazed (appalled?) that for many math teachers, technology is a calculator and a projector. Sadly, I can count on one hand with fingers left over the number of teachers and my fellow preservice teachers who have even heard of Wolfram Alpha.

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