Technology & Mathematics: Get Connected
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Learn↔Reflect Strand, Thursday,
April 26
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Plan
one full day for the Focus of the Year topic, Technology and Mathematics: Get
Connected. Start your day with the morning Kickoff session, then choose from a
variety of presentations throughout the day focused on Technology and
Mathematics. You’ll conclude with a Reflection session at 3:30 where you’ll
discuss the day’s learning. Check out the complete strand schedule now.
Learn More About this Strand
Start your day with the morning Kickoff session to build the foundation for your full day of focused learning.
Guidelines for Choosing and Using Technology in the
Mathematics Classroom
Thomas P. Dick
Thursday, April 26, 2012: 9:30
AM-10:30 AM
Technology can give powerful leverage for affording
opportunities to learn mathematics, including real-world contexts and tasks
requiring reasoning and sense making. The question “what does technology buy
me,” in the sense of new affordances created for learning and teaching, should
guide us in choosing technology to use and implementing it well.
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Conclude your day with a Reflection session at 3:30 where
you’ll discuss the day’s learning through the context of the following
reflection questions:
- What role does technology play in providing
multiple representations and opportunities for communication to help students
develop mathematical understanding?
- How does technology influence your
instructional decisions? And, how do
your instructional decisions influence your use of technology?
- How can technology increase access to
significant mathematics to all
students? How do you promote social justice for access to and facility with
technology in learning mathematics?
- How are you thinking differently about your use of
technology as a result of participating in the Learn-Reflect strand? What
are some of the steps you plan to take to promote growth in your own use of
technology?
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The Annual Meeting program offers a variety of presentations that
incorporate technology with classroom learning, including those
presentations that make up this strand. Find the technology
presentations that meet your needs: |
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- Check out all the Learn↔Reflect technology presentations and the complete strand schedule.
- words such as "whiteboard," "online tools," or "technology."
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Strand Goals & Overview
The intent of this yearlong focus on technology
is to help teachers, school leaders, and teacher educators expand their view of
how technology can be used as a tool to support effective mathematics teaching,
enhance mathematics learning, and influence what mathematics is taught. By using technological tools, students can
work at higher levels of generalization, model and solve complex problems, and
focus on decision-making and reasoning. The Technology Standard, as described
in Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, will serve as a framework
for this focus.
Mathematical power can arise from
technology that includes increased opportunity for learning, increased
opportunities for real-life social contexts and orientation to the future. The term technology in the
context of school mathematics refers to digital tools, computers, calculators
and other handheld devices, dynamic software, podcasts, interactive
presentation devices, spreadsheets, Internet-based resources, as well as
emerging technology and novel uses of technology.
The intent of this focus is to promote
technology as an essential tool for learning mathematics in the 21st century
and a way to integrate the principles and process standards with teaching the
content standards. The use of technology cannot replace conceptual
understanding, computational fluency, or problem-solving skills. In fact, it
can help students make more sense of the mathematics they are learning by
providing more efficient ways to represent, analyze, and communicate their
mathematical ideas. When technology is used strategically, it can provide
access to all five mathematics content standards for all students. Furthermore,
technology should not be thought of as an “extra” or “add-on” but as an
integral part of teaching and learning in the mathematics classroom. Effective
teachers maximize the potential of technology to develop students’
understanding, stimulate their interest, and increase their proficiency in
mathematics. Technology can and should support learner-centered strategies that
address the diverse needs of all learners of mathematics.
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