Literacy in the Math and Science
Classroom
How can technology help us teach?

Source: http://www.21stcenturyskills.org

Skills - the focus is on…
Flexibility
Innovation
Problem Solving
Collaboration
Interpretation
Evaluation and Analysis
Communication
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Source: http://www.21stcenturyskills.org

The Core Subjects
In addition to our content:
- Global Awareness
- Financial, Economic and
Entrepreneurial Literacy
- Civic Literacy
- Health Literacy
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Source: http://www.21stcenturyskills.org

Technology…
...decentralizes knowledge
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Hard Information versus Knowledge
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Maximize the Opportunities Unique to School

The phrase “technology and education” usually
means inventing new gadgets to teach the same
old stuff in a thinly disguised version of the same
old way. - Seymour Papert
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Our focus today:
- Using technology to “do math” or to “do
science”
- Maximizing classroom time
- Collaboration
- Organization for students

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If mathematics is a way of making sense of the
world, computing is a way of making
mathematics. – Gary S. Stager

Math is fun
power.
- written by 2nd grader Clara
on the back of her math
worksheet
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Powerful Software
• GeoGebra
• Fathom
• Maple
• Logger Pro
• Stella

Maximizing classroom time…
Jing – for homework solutions and
demonstrations
Online homework practice and collaboration –
OneNote, WebAssign, Maple TA

Student Collaboration and Discussion…
Wikis -
Diigo -

Organization
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Manipulating and Exploring
Numbers and Data
ManyEyes Wolfram Alpha Google Tables

WikiLabs
WikiBooks

Google Docs

Current Events
Custom Search Engine
Diigo or Fleck

VoiceThread

Glogster

Stella

Video Analysis

vPython