TxASCD Web 2.0 Technology in the Mathematics Classroom! Norma Jost Austin ISD Mathematics Department Austin, Texas Please: 1)Have your cell phones out (on vibrate) 2)Introduce yourself to your neighbor (name, where from, what you do) 1

Intended Learnings Explore ideas about 21 st Century Learners and Web 2.0 Tools to enhance professional development/ department/ classroom interactions Work and learn together during this hour in a learning community 2

Agenda 11:20-11:30 Launch Web 2.0 & Tool 1 11:30-12:10 Tool 2 – Tool 5 12:10-12:20Summary_Exit Slip/Poll 3

Who are we? Silent: Baby Boomer: Gen Xer Millennial Net Gen? ? 4

Tool1: Millennial Quiz 5

Who are our students? 6

Tool 2: Poll Everywhere 7 Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews. audience response hardwareinternationally with textingTwitterrave reviews

Tool 2: Poll Everywhere 8 1. I have heard about many-to-many and/or millennials. Yes (101732) No (101733) I don't know (101956) 2. I've heard about Don Tapscott, Clay Shirky, Alan November &/or Dan Meyer. All of them (42050) A few of them (42080) None of them (42090)

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Poll Everywhere Question 1 11

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Poll Everywhere Question 2 13

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Tool 2: Poll Everywhere 16 Discuss with a partner: 1.How can you use Tool 2 in a mathematics class? 2.How can you use Tool 2 in a Team Meeting? 3.How can you use Tool 2 in a Professional Development?

Tool 3: Weebly 21 st Century Weebly: njost.weebly.comnjost.weebly.com Weebly is an online, free, widget-based Web site creator, funded by micro-seed fund Y Combinator. It uses a widget style format, allowing users to create pages with only a few clicks by dragging and dropping different page elements (images, text, or interactive content, etc.) onto a page and filling in the content.widget-basedY Combinator 17

Tool 3: Weebly 21 st Century Weebly: njost.weebly.com 18

Don TapscottDon Tapscott: How could this information about “digital natives” impact mathematics classrooms/PD/ meetings? or Clay ShirkyClay Shirky: What could many-to-many look/sound like in mathematics classrooms/PD/meetings? This activity is structured as: Learn, individually reflect, dialogue 19 Tool 3: Weebly Vote

Don Tapscott & Grown up Digitial 20 B 5

Clay Shirky & Many-to-Many 21 B 5

Tool 3: Weebly 22 Discuss with a partner: 1.How will mathematics teachers use Tool 3? 2.How will mathematics students use Tool 3?

Tool 4: Wiki/Google Docs A Wiki is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used to create collaborative wiki websites, to power community websites, for personal note taking, in corporate intranets, and in knowledge management systems.website interlinkedweb pagesweb browsermarkup language WYSIWYGwiki software note takingintranets knowledge management 23

Tool 4: Wiki/Google Docs 24

Tool 4: Wiki/Google Docs 25

Dan Meyer TED TALKS video On our district wiki – using with curriculum writers, lesson planners, how to understand rigorous tasks…. 26

Dan Meyer TED TALKS video TIPS Improving Rigor of Mathematics & Develop Patient Problem Solving 1. Use multimedia 2. Encourage student intuition 3. Ask the shortest question you can 4. Let students build the problem 5. Be less helpful 27

Tool 4: Wiki/Google Docs 28 Discuss with a partner: 1.How will mathematics teachers use Tool 4? 2.How will mathematics students use Tool 4?

Tool 5: Cool Stuff-Web 2.0 Guru! 29 5a

Tool 5: Cool Stuff – Games! 30 5b

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5 Tools to explore!! 1.Millennial Quiz 2. Poll Everywhere & article 3. Website creators: Weebly 4. Wikis, Google Docs: PbWorks 5. Web 2.0 Guru and Online mathematics games – NCTM, Skill Builder, OswegoarticleWeeblyWeb 2.0 Guru NCTMSkill BuilderOswego 33

21 st Century Exit Slip 1.What new learning did you have today? (34182) 2.How has your understanding of ‘Technology and 21st Century Learners’ changed? (34409) 3.Comments and/or feedback for today’s session include: (34419) 34