Yesterday we had our junior high close out. I attended a grade 7 and 8 math DI sharing session. Got a lot of great tech uses for classes. The presenter focused at one point on how we can use the cell phone in our classes. Instead of fighting with students about bringing their cell phones to class, we can embrace the fact that they almost all have them and use it to our advantage. I was really interested in this as I had considered using this idea as a focus for my inquiry project. I intend on getting more information on this topic and was hoping that I could "killl two birds with one stone" if you will, but it does not focus enough on math and can be applied to other subject areas. Which I think is a good thing. There are not enough hours in the day to tackle everything at the one time, so it may have to wait until another date.... maybe. We'll see. In the end, I thought it was very interesting.
Another thing that was pointed out was that in the students eyes their parents use email, a student texts. A valid point I think! I think that we have to remember that students have interestes in things that we may not. I think that in order to be very effective as a teacher we should embrace these things and use them to our advantage.
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