Integrating IT into the Science & Mathematics Classroom

Barry HannahLester B. Pearson School

Board

You have 10 seconds….You have 10 seconds….You have 1 minute….You have 1 minute….

Pig Personality ProfileOn a blank piece of 8½ x 11 paper, On a blank piece of 8½ x 11 paper,

draw a pig draw a pig

Don't even glanceDon't even glance

Don't look at your neighbors' pigsDon't look at your neighbors' pigs

You have 3 You have 3 minutes….minutes….You have 2 minutes….You have 2 minutes….Time’s Up!Time’s Up!

If the pig is drawn . . .Toward the top of the paper, you are a positive, optimistic person.

Toward the middle of the paper, you are a realist.

Toward the bottom of the paper, you are a pessimist and have a tendency to be negative.

Facing left, you are traditional, friendly, and good at remembering dates, including birthdays.

Facing forward (or angled forward), you are direct, enjoy playing "the devil's advocate,“ and neither fear nor avoid discussions.

Facing right, you are innovative and active but do not have a strong sense of family, and you are not good at remembering dates.

With many details, you are analytical, cautious, and distrustful.

With few details, you are emotional and naive, care little for details, and are a risk-taker.

With four legs showing, you are secure and stubborn, and you stick to your ideals.

With less than four legs, you are insecure or are going through a period of major change.

With large ears, you are a good listener. The larger the ears, the better listener you are.

And, last but not least…the longer the pig’s tail you have drawn, the more satisfied you are with the quality of romance in your life!

Pig Personality ProfilePig Personality Profile

Workshop Organization

Introduction Why and How? Web 2.0 Where to find resources Presentation of some resources Experimentation & sharing

Why bother?

Current students are digital natives Learning styles Differentiation Employment skills George Lucas Foundation Paper

4 Points from the Glenn Report

1. The rapid pace of change in both the increasingly interdependent global economy and the American workplace demands widespread mathematics- and science-related knowledge and abilities.

2. Our citizens need both mathematics and science for their everyday decision making.

3. Mathematics and science and inextricably linked to the nation's security interests.

4. The deeper, intrinsic value of mathematical and scientific knowledge shape and define our common life, history, culture. Mathematics and science are primary sources of lifelong learning and the progress of our civilization."

How to do it

Teach concepts over skills

Search strategies Information credibility Workspace ergonomics Debugging

Q: What do the digital natives want?A: Web 2.0What is web 2.0? Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer

industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (O'Reilly Radar definition October 2006)

Web 2.0 is about the more human aspects of interactivity. It's about conversations, interpersonal networking, personalization, and individualism... In Web 2.0, information flows in multiple directions, is user-generated, and is shared widely.(George Lorenzo, Diana Oblinger and Charles Dziuban (2007))

WWW vs Web 2.0

Static content Requires user to go get

it Need some web design

skills to design and upload pages

Single person usually responsible for content

Dynamic content “Pushes” the content to

the user Know how to type (formatting done via

CSS) Content generated/

reviewed/ edited collaboratively

Some components of Web 2.0

RSS Blogs Wikis Podcasting / Vodcasting Social Bookmarking Social networking – Flickr, facebook,

myspace, youtube e-Portfolios e-Learning

Resources

Bookmarks Social (del.icio.us, Diigo - formerly Furl) Personal (browser based, synchronizable)

Browsing Firefox Extensions – Google, del.icio.us, IE tabs, many more

Listservs, Newsletters, Blogs & Podcasts Internet Scout, techLearning News, NAEP

Websites NSTA, NCTM, NASA, CSA, School boards

Search engines Google, Kartoo, Vivisimo, etc.

Workshops, networking Dreamcatching, in-house professional development

Resources - Where to find themResources - Where to find them

Elementary School Online videos Videoconferencing Interactive Whiteboards Collaborative Web Projects Computers

Middle School Digital cameras Word processing Online

High School Spreadsheets Graphing calculators PowerPoint Podcasts

Resources … what kindsResources … what kinds

Software Commercial Productivity (MS Office Suite) Open Source Productivity (Open Office Suite) Inspiration (Commercial concept mapping software) cMap (Free concept mapping software) Lego robotics (Mindstorms & RoboLab) Course Management Software (Moodle, Sakai)

Resources … what kindsResources … what kinds

On-line applications Gliffy, Peepel, Zoho, Skrbl, Wiki’s, blogs

On-line applications Gliffy, Peepel, Zoho, Skrbl, Wiki’s, blogs

GGooooggllee CalculatorGGooooggllee EarthGGooooggllee PlanimeterGGooooggllee PedometerGGooooggllee Docs & SpreadsheetsGGooooggllee in education

GGooooggllee CalculatorGGooooggllee EarthGGooooggllee PlanimeterGGooooggllee PedometerGGooooggllee Docs & SpreadsheetsGGooooggllee in education

Resources … a samplingResources … a sampling

GGooooggllee rules!rules!GGooooggllee rules!rules!

WebsitesWebsites

Internet Scout - http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/

techLearning News - http://www.techlearning.com/

Gliffy - http://www.gliffy.com

Skrbl - http://www.skrbl.com/

Peepel - http://www.peepel.com/

GGooooggllee in education - http://googleined.wikispaces.com/

Math Links – Various

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

Science Links – VariousNative American Geometry - http://earthmeasure.com/Education/Intro/hexprt.html