NCTM Position
“It is essential that teachers
and students have regular access to technologies that support and advance
mathematical sense making, reasoning, problem solving, and communication.
Effective teachers optimize the potential of technology to develop students'
understanding, stimulate their interest, and increase their proficiency in
mathematics. When teachers use technology strategically, they can provide
greater access to mathematics for all students.”
As we see in the NCTM’s position, in the era of today it is necessary and essential to have regular
access to technologies which are beneficial in teaching and learning.
As teachers, which technologies can we use? In
that blog post, I will mention these.
Firstly, I want to make emphasize that in our
classes we can use any technology that will contribute our teaching in a
positive way that satisfies NCTM’s position. It depends on only the creativity
and innovation of teachers. However, there are some softwares, applications or tools that teachers can
get inspired from them.
Articulate StoryLine, is a good software to prepare
interactive games, content, and quizzes. This software is like an interactive
Power Point. With this software, you can teach the topic that you want to teach
by preparing a content that provide instructions which they should follow to
students and help learning of the topic by following these instructions. On the
other hand, with this software, you can give feedbacks to students after asking
some questions or giving some tasks.
Geogebra, is a dynamic mathematics software
developed for better understanding of mathematics and geometry. Teachers can
use GeoGebra to describe mathematical concepts, visualize them, and prepare
enriched materials. Dynamic geometry software helps you to create geometric
structures and other dynamic figures (eg, function graphs) using a variety of
geometric tools and menu items.
Geometer’s Sketchpad, is a dynamic geometry software
that is the most widely used mathematical software program in the world. For
example, it can easily be shown that the sum of the interior angles will not
change even if the triangle type (narrow angle, vertical, wide angle, etc.)
drawn by GSP Sketchpad is changed. This allows students to make new inferences
from their observations and discover their mathematical properties.
Dreamweaver, is a program for designing and coding a web page. It provides both visual design and code editing tools.
Dreamweaver, is a program for designing and coding a web page. It provides both visual design and code editing tools.
SketchUp, is a 3D Modeling software designed for
architects, engineers, filmmakers, game developers, and users in almost every
area where 3D modeling is required. SketchUp is also a
great tool for teaching geometry. This sites can be inspiring how educators can
use Sketchup: http://mathforum.org/sketchup/
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