How have I grown this semester? Well, I am still a short dude, about 5’ 3”, lol jk! Sorry just what came to mind first. But on a serious note, at the beginning of the semester I really didn’t have an expectations except to try to learn as much as possible from the program and from my C-15 fam! I really didn’t use much technology in the classroom. The bits I used was to provide my students with daily agendas and live links to classroom tasks and homework assignments. Here and there I would pull up a Desmos activity that involved students to use their laptops but that’s it. So my comfort of using tech in the class made me feel a bit uncomfortable. This is probably due to the fact that I don’t have a class set of chrome books, I only have 5 available, and not all my students own one. And I didn’t really bother to think how I could implement tech tools with the resources that I have available. These attitudes towards using tech in the class have definitely changed now. Especially now that I have ran a project in my classroom that involves students doing most of their work on laptops. I realized now, that my students know how to create and have a good hand on using google docs or slides. Also, when telling them to bring devices, a little bit more than half of my students brought devices and by asking neighboring teachers to borrow their class set, almost all of my thirty-something students had a laptop! So now I am more motivated to implement projects or tasks that involve technology. I don’t fell as afraid as I did before. The tools that have been presented to us through this course have also helped out. It’s really nice to know that there are a ton of websites that are free for us to use and implement in our curriculum. That is something that I am looking forward to in the future. I think one thing that comes to mind is assigning not just projects but small homework assignments through different websites for students to play games or create games on their own and then bring them to class and master the math content as a class. But I am probably more excited to see and listen to what my cohort will be doing in their classroom. I enjoy listening to others’ ideas and their experiences in the classroom. Most of what I do is by doing just that.
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