In your professional role as mathematics teacher, you will be able to generate effective lessons that incorporate technology by designing, developing, and implementing learning activities which, when appropriate or essential, utilize media and technology
that have been purposefully selected to accomplish stated learning objectives.
You will be able to demonstrate a calculator-active learning activity by designing, developing, and delivering a lesson segment which uses capabilites of a graphics calculator as both an instructional aid and as a learning tool.
You will be able to demonstrate an activity that uses the capabilities and power of the computer by designing, developing, and delivering a lesson segment that uses MathCad, Geometer's Sketchpad, or Microsoft Works as an instructional aid or as a learning
too.
You will be able to demonstrate uses of the computer as a teacher tool to assist in classroom management activities by designing and implementing a spreadsheet that acts as a gradebook by designing and implementing a database that serves to store and mani
pulate some useful classroom data, and by using a the word processing capabilities to generate class activity sheets, test, letters, etc.
You will be able to demonstrate the use of a computer tutorial by designing, developing, and implementing a lesson segment that utilizes a tutorial in an instructionally effective manner.
You will be able to demonstrate telecommunications capabilities for educational and instructional purposes by accessing internet e-mail, gopher, network news, and World Wide Web and utilizing htese resources to gain access to a wide variety of instruction
al and learning activities and utilizing these resources as not only a rich learning tool for your students in the classroom, but also as a source of your own personal growth as a profesional in education.
You will be able to demonstrate using traditional media as an integral part of the instructional/learning processes by designing, developing, and implementing lesson segmenst that utilize an audio tape recorder, a VCR, an overhead projector, an opaque pro
jector, a filmstrip projector, a display board, and/or realiz as instructional aids and as learning tools appropriate to the mathematics classroom.
You will be able to demonstrate selecting appropriate media for a mathematics lesson by using a media selection model and practical considerations to create a rational for all media used in a particular lesson.
Your grade will be a result of multiple assessment activities, culminating in the delivery of a short 20 minute or less lesson that illustrates what you have learned about media in the mathematics classroom.
Other activities that will contribute to your grade include written responses to various and sundry issues related to media use in the classroom, small group activities and creations, your ability to sustain a distance learning environment with me, and your contributions to the class via readings outside of class, your proficiency with the computer programs we use, and your proficiency with the calculator. Obviously, you will not be expected to master everything!
The grade I submit to Dr. Lias will be approximately 1/5 of your grade in the Ed 410 course.
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