Katie+M


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Grade 6 Math

Eisenhower Middle School

Wyckoff School District

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Let's start **BLOGGING ** together: Our Math Classroom 2) Online Check-in Homework Assignments 3) Problem Solving 4) Computation Exploration 5) Weekly Assessments || 1) My dog, Scout, the best little doggie in the world! 2) I love completing puzzles, stop by my classroom and pick your favorite. 3) I also cannot live without a little rugby in my life, whether its playing or coaching. 4) Walking is my all time favorite activity to do in free time. 5) Ice cream is my dessert of choice :) ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Classroom Highlights... ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Personal Highlights... ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">1) Math Words


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Daily Reflection... **
 * **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">5 New Technologies to Explore ** || * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Glogster
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Wikispaces
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Wordle/Tagzeedo
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Edmodo/Kids Blog
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Delicious ||

**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">4 Ideas to Share with Others **
|| * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">GoogleDocs and Self-Graded Templates
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Back-channeling
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Voki
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Online math games
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Common Craft Videos ||
 * **<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">3 Principles of Universal Design for Learning ** || * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Representation
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Action and Expression
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Engagement ||
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">2 Changes in my Teaching to Reach All Learners in the Digital Age ** || * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> I will be more flexible and open minded to various forms of assessment to include all learners in my classroom. I hope to allow students to show me what they have learned throughout the week and/or unit of study instead of me dictating what they should have learned.
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">I will introduce a blog for my classroom. In the beginning the goal will be to help the transition to middle school by sharing personal favorites. Then I plan to incorporate problem solving and/or math investigations in the real world for students to explore. ||
 * **<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">1 BIG Idea to Implement in the Fall ** || * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Introduce appropriate YouTube videos to hook my students' attention, enhance my weekly lessons, and teach the math topic through a different lens. In addition, I will upload the individually links to my website for future viewing and prep an upcoming assessment. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Part 1 - Toolbox Time #1... **


 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">What did I learn / find interesting? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">During this class time, I watched two tutorials on Pinterest. I chose to Pinterest because its the newest and latest online feature and I have no knowledge of this social network. I learned how you can search, pin, and create different boards. The tutorials also mentioned how to follow other people's boards if you share similar interests. I found the tutorials quite helpful and just needed the time to sit down, explore, and independently learn the basics of Pinterest. I found Pinterest to be interesting to share who I am and the current interests and trends I find appealing. I feel this time was well spent because my students are aware and knowledgeable of Pinterest and I need to be knowledgeable as well.


 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">How will this technology help make curriculum more accessible to students? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Pinterest has the potential to help make the curriculum more accessible to students and even parents if setup for that purpose. I will need to further investigate this social network to successfully infuse it into the curriculum and my classroom for both students and parents. Pinterest seems to have many opportunities to display current trends and interests. I feel these trends and interests can be tailored to education and curriculum, however, unsure what is out there for educational purposes. For instance, I may be able to update my account with educational resources for students to explore when having difficulty with the material taught during the unit of study. I may also be able to pin real world examples and professions that use the current math topics we are discussing and learning in class. In addition, I think I may be able to pin current topics in math education for colleagues and to further my professional development.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Culminating Activity #1: Elevator Speech... **


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">What is Universal Design for Learning? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Universal Design for Learning (UDL) works jointly with any curriculum to minimize learning barriers of students and create an optimal learning environment for all students in the classroom. Its a universal method that reaches all students across three board networks: the what, the how, and the why of learning a particular topic as well as provides teachers with flexibility to accommodate various learners in the classroom. Teachers who infuse the UDL approach in their classrooms include goals, methods, materials, and assessments in their everyday teaching practices to increase student learning. UDL encourages teachers to have an open mind, include various modes of representations in the lesson, and meet the needs of individual students to ultimately foster student engagement.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Part 2 - Toolbox Time #2... **


 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">What did I learn / find interesting? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">During class time today, I split my time between Delicious and Edmodo. I found Delicious to be quite interesting because it will organize the mess of bookmarks I have as well as encourage me to bookmark more often! I also like the "follow" feature because Cathlin was able to share her UDL Stack with me. Before continuing with Delicious, I need to brainstorm the best approach to tag and when to stack items together. Then I moved on to Edmodo which seemed like an amazing site for both parents and students to have access to. I realize I will have to become accustomed to updating this page on a regular basis as well as design it so that students are interacting with each other. To say the least, I was fully engrossed with Edmodo because its a site I feel I can become comfortable using and implementing into my classroom.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">National Center for Universal Design for Learning: I thought it was interesting that NJ has established a project to improve the academic achievement in mathematics by effectively using educational technology, yet I was unaware of this initiative even though I teach middle school math. The Prezi for UDL was interesting to click through and read. This opportunity to view Prezi made me excited to learn what this program has to offer through our class as well as be able to create a basic presentation using it. Lastly, I found and explored the breakdown of a GPS and how it relates to UDL through the three principles: representation, expression, and engagement.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">CAST - Learning Tools: I found 10 Learning Tools within this tab. I was surprised three tools focused on reading and writing and there were none that focused on math. As I continued to explore, I went into UDL Curriculum Self-Check and found a four mathematics resources to review and make sense of, unfortunately two links were not up and running!


 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">How will this technology help make curriculum more accessible to students? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The Delicious site will be helpful to tag, stack, and organize websites that relate to unit of studies that support the curriculum as well as offer enrichment activities. Once these websites are tagged in Delicious, I can post them on my school website or even use Edmodo to transmit the information to my students. I think these two sites have the ability to work hand and hand together and add life to the curriculum for my students. Its a goal of mine to find websites to post on Delicious that stretch students desire to explore a unit of study in more depth and share their findings and thoughts with their classmates on Edmodo. I feel this will be a good extension piece to the classroom and foster the beginning of self-directed learning in my math classroom.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">National Center for Universal Design for Learning: I think the best way to use this newly discovered knowledge of UDL and how it incorporates technology into the classroom is to post several links for my colleagues to get the conversion started in my school district.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">CAST - Learning Tools: At this point in my research, I am unsure how the CAST resource will help foster my math curriculum to make it more accessible to students. There's a lot of information on this site and I have not been able to fully grasp the math features that will supplement and enrichment the curriculum document to have a more universal approach for students.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Circles of Digital Learners... **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Instant feedback
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Fore-thinkers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Fast-paced environment
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Creative
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Technological savvy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Always connected
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Visually stimulated
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Resourceful
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Multi-tasker
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Constant learner and self-explorer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Ability to connect and interact with various people
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Personalized

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Culminating Activity #3: Who are my digital natives? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Personal - **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">My mother
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Colleagues - **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Guidance counselor, Grade level math colleague, Curriculum director, Special education colleague
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Digital natives are the students we are teaching. Most likely our students have connected with someone prior to coming to school, walk down our hallways with "computers" in their pockets, and check their cell phones prior to leaving the school building for the day. These children growing up today want choices in their education to learn and produce products that are accustomed to their specific learning styles. These children desire to personalize their homepages and system preferences to reflect who they are and what they like. These students also have the power to collaborate and form relationships through social networking such as facebook, twitter, and blogs. Digital natives want to have fun and play while learning and ultimately show what they learned and share share share the information with anyone who has an interest. Its about speed and innovation for these digital natives. Digital natives are comfortable and want to explore new technology devices!