Web 2.0 in the Math Classroom Karen Phillips Winnipeg, MB ETCATA Conference Grant MacEwan College Edmonton, AB

What is Web 2.0 anyway?

Engage me or lose me! Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. Cyberspace is a part of everyday life ‘ Hypertext’ minds

Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants

Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

Cyberspace is a part of everyday life

‘ Hypertext’ minds

Why Blog in a Math Class? Learning is a conversation! They expand the walls of the classroom They archive the learning that teachers and students do Blogs can teach new literacies students will need to function in an ever-expanding information society Different learning styles can be supported

Learning is a conversation!

They expand the walls of the classroom

They archive the learning that teachers and students do

Blogs can teach new literacies students will need to function in an ever-expanding information society

Different learning styles can be supported

Participation VS Production Remember when…… Mastery was exhibited by getting 70% on a written test? Web 2.0 allows kids to display mastery in countless ways that involve creating digital content for large audiences

Remember when……

Mastery was exhibited by getting 70% on a written test?

Web 2.0 allows kids to display mastery in countless ways that involve creating digital content for large audiences

How we use our blog & other Web 2.0 tools Class portal Online filing cabinet Collaborative space Communication

Class portal

Online filing cabinet

Collaborative space

Communication

Safety Concerns Protect the privacy of students AUP’s Administration Communicate your plans with parents Conversations with students regarding appropriateness, responsibility and common sense

Protect the privacy of students

AUP’s

Administration

Communicate your plans with parents

Conversations with students regarding appropriateness, responsibility and common sense

References Prensky, M. Digital natives, digital immigrants . Retrieved April 27, 2007, from http://www.marcprensky.com/ writing/ Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20 Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf Richardson, W. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms . Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin P, 2006. 6-58.

Prensky, M. Digital natives, digital immigrants . Retrieved April 27, 2007, from http://www.marcprensky.com/ writing/ Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20 Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf

Richardson, W. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms . Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin P, 2006. 6-58.