In today's class, we broke up into three groups, completing three different activities. My favorite one was sharing my blackboard lesson and activity to Danielle. It gave me good practice on how to present a lesson and then go about including the class in the lesson by raising certain questions and asking them to complete the activities at the end of the lesson. While I was presenting my lesson, I saw that I had made a mistake. This put me in a great situation because now I know how to react if this ever comes up. I can ask the class, "what is wrong with this page?" and then ask them to correct it.
My least favorite activity was using google sketch. After watching the videos on how to use it, I understood it a little more, but not enough to create a simple chair. It took me many times to get a simple shape on the diagram, but after many tries, I started to get the hang of it. I guess practice will eventually make perfect (or close to prefect). A program like this would be good to use in a math classroom when learning about dimensions and geometric shapes. I think it would allow the students to be more creative and definitely interact them more in what they are learning.
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I'm glad practicing your smartboard lesson was helpful. I think google Sketch up is a great application for math. There are so many things you could do with it.
ReplyDeleteThe sketchup activity was pretty fun to me. There were quite a few ways to make a chair and I could definitely see applications to math.
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