Week+4+Reflections

=Week 4 Reflections = =**Lesson 7 - Using Technology** =

Linking today's lesson in with ICT, most effective and least effective tools, below is my list. I enjoyed working with Kay checking out the various sites to help with the Strategies and upcoming final placement at our First practicum!
 * 1) Interactive tools (Gizmos)
 * Gizmos are mostly free or in our case were given a password to access it
 * It can be used for single topics, such as dividing fractions, to easily learn material with an activity
 * Teachers can challenge their students with activities that will make them investigate the nature of the concept using the Gizmo at hand
 * 1) Video mini clips (Sum & Product Video)
 * Videos can be stimulating, insightful and fun to be used as a "minds on"
 * sometimes they can be instructional videos to refresh teacher memory (Khan Academy videos)
 * Students gain a visual focus from videos (what and why are we doing this)
 * Disadvantages: it can take a long time to prepare your own out-of-class video
 * 1) Collaboration tools - wikis, blogs, facebook, twitter, skype, etc
 * social networking tool
 * Can reflect about mathematical experience, make groups for discussion, create blogs about class
 * Can incorporate these tools in the classroom since students are using them outside of class time
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Disadvantage: students may get off task, and it may be difficult to monitor their work
 * 1) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Production tools - google docs, youtube, prezi, wordle
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students can use these tools for class work presentation
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This tool didn't impress me as much, since I knew all of them already excited

= ****Lesson 8 - Finding a Video and Using Real World Problems**** =

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Today was not one of the best lessons in terms of partners. However, being a flexible person, I just waited until my partner arrived and with no collaboration I designed a word problem based on decorating the Cinesphere at Ontario Place with Christmas Lights. Fermi problems are great problems for students to have an open-ended question where no answer is right or wrong. However, it is the way that students assess their critical thinking that intrigues me and gets me excited to see what students will come up with. Attached below was this lessons result!