IED 575 Practicum
in Technology in Schools
Course professor: Dr.
Cindy Emmans
Self-Progress Report # 1
The
main objective of my practicum is the collection and creation of GeoGebra
investigations and demonstrations as well as the creation (and collection) of
some on-line videos to support them.
These
activities will be used to teach functions (see unit aims here) to secondary
school students in different classroom situations. I will be using them with my
own students at LAS in Switzerland, but I will also gather feedback from other
teachers collaborating in the project.
It
is my intention in this practicum that some of my students use my GeoGebra
dynamic worksheets to make conjectures and prove mathematical theorems in
functions. I also plan to collaborate with other teachers who will be sending
me their feedback about the activities. I will also use some other teacher’s
activities and collaborate with them that way.
In the first few weeks
of this project I have managed to get everything set up, communicating the
course professor my intentions early in the course (in fact, even before the
course started). I also communicated
this to the mathematics department in my school (where one other teacher is
collaborating) and with other mathematic departments in other schools.
I also set up a blog for this course, very recently converted into a website
& blog, to accommodate the course professor request.
I
am about to finish my own set of GeoGebra dynamic worksheets for the target
unit (functions) and will soon be uploading them on different educational
networks (including GeoGebra Tube, the specialized GeoGebra educational
network)
I am really enjoying the work I do for
this practicum, though I find it very time consuming. I intend to publish all
my work results so that it can be easily accessed. I hope that doing this I
might manage to spend at least 75% of my invested time in this course doing
productive work, though I fear I might need more than 25% of the time to talk
about what I am doing, as this seems to be highly valued. My main struggle in
this practicum seems to be to show of the work I do as I prefer to spend more time doing the work than reporting what it is done.
Looking forward to
my ongoing learning,
Alvaro Serra
Endicott College
IED 575 Practicum
in Technology in Schools
Course professor: Dr.
Cindy Emmans
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"Who dares to teach must
never cease to learn."
-- John Cotton
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