When I look at this GAME, I am wondering if I bit off more than I can chew!
But I know that it will be worth it if I can pull it off. Again, my GAME plan is to work on collaborating (teachers with teachers and students with students in real and virtual environments) and getting real world applications of math.
So far, I have assigned one real world application to my Pre-Calc students. They have 2 weeks to work through this and use equations and series to model an infection in the body. However, when I set it up, I made it an individual assignment so it won't work in both of my goals. I have given them multiple technology tools and I am working hard on it.
But, on Collaboration, I have a lot of work to do. Right now, I am collaborating with the teachers who teach the same courses as I do, but I am not working outside of this little bubble that I find myself in. To get out of this bubble, I need better Internet access. Right now, my school filter blocks anything that that isn't text! It is ridiculous. No video, rarely a picture, no audio...it is stupid. I have to get some more access to get to the good stuff.
Secondly, I need some meeting time with all of the science and other teachers. I would like some common planning time. To do planning with teachers, I need to know when the Psych teachers are teaching stats, when the physics teachers are teaching vectors, and so on. So, some inter department planning is a great thing, but rarely do I get any of it!
So, to collaborate, I have to find an easier filter on the Internet, or find a willing partner in my school. Once I find that, I will be good to go. Some other resources will be needed, I am sure. But I won't know until I get to that point.
But I am working on it!
Can't wait to see how you guys are doing,
Tyler
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Wow, only text? I thought my internet filter was bad!
ReplyDeleteIt is so frustrating that schools can hinder using better eaching strategies. I know there are some things that kids should not be looking at, but to only allow text internet sites? How do they research anything at all?
My school implemented a 1-hour delay for students each Wednesday so that teachers will have time to collaborate with each other which seems like a great plan. However, they have managed to give us so much busy work during this meeting time that we do not have much time to actually collaborate with each other. Now we all dread coming in on Wednesday mornings, which is terrible. Collaboration between colleagues is so important and it is disappointing that our collaboration time has turned into such a joke.
Wow, I suppose it must be very hard having everything blocked as you do. Not fun!
ReplyDeleteHave you tried collaborating with a wiki since the teachers that you would like to meet with have varied times avaiable to meet? I am not sure if this option would be blocked, but it's worth a try. I used this in another district when we were editing a technology plan and it worked quite well and none of us had to travel and meet in any specific place or at any specific time but this virtual place.