Little Ones Learning Math Using Technology
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This document describes a professional development opportunity through George Mason University for teachers to learn how to use technology tools like computers, SmartBoards, and digital cameras to teach math to young students. The training was sponsored by the Virginia Department of Education and took place at Annandale Terrace Elementary School, with teachers Jennifer Orr and Valerie Skinner from Fairfax County Public Schools participating. The teachers learned how integrate tools like desktop computers, netbooks, SmartBoards, document cameras, and digital/video cameras into their early math instruction.
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Little Ones Learning Math Using Technology
- 1. Little Ones Learning Math Using Technology A VDOE SPONSORED MSP PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY THROUGH GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY Jennifer Orr Valerie Skinner Annandale Terrace Elementary School Annandale Terrace Elementary School Fairfax County Public Schools Fairfax County Public Schools COMPLETE, GMU COMPLETE, GMU GMU COMPLETE Center
- 4. Technology Tools: Computers (desktops & netbooks) SmartBoard Document camera Digital cameras & flip video cameras GMU COMPLETE Center
Editor's Notes
- We have four (old) desktops in our classroom. Anytime there are offers of computers I snag them. It means I spend some time coaxing these machines into working but it also means we have them.
- We have access to a cart of netbooks shared by all the teachers on our wing (about 10 classrooms). We can sign up to check it out and we use these at least once a week.
- We have a class blog. We post pictures and write about what we are learning. It’s main purpose is to communicate with parents about what is happening at school.
- Part way through the year I allow the students to begin writing the posts for our class blog. I show them the pictures I have taken recently and they decide which ones they want to use. Then they dictate to me what they want to share. We use google translate to have our writing in Spanish as well.
- One of our uses of technology is really basic. We play games online. I’m pretty picky about what we play. The three you see here are some of my favorites for this age group.
- I have a delicious site for our class. It makes life easy for us when we are in the computer lab or have the netbooks. It also makes life easy for me because I don’t have to try and remember which sites I liked. It allows students an easy way to find the things we’ve been doing at school from home or elsewhere.
- We have a SmartBoard in our room as well. We use it frequently but carefully. I want to be sure students are the ones using it, not me.
- We also have a document camera. This is great when we want to look at smaller things as a whole group. That may be during a focus lesson I am teaching or during share when the kids want to teach each other about what they have been doing.
- We use turtle art as well. This is a free piece of software – if you go to turtleart.org you can email the developers and they will send you a link to download it. I love it because it is fun but it also helps students learn about numbers and geometry.
- We create a lot of movies together. The ones we make in VoiceThread are created by me and the students work with them.
- Other movies involve more work on the students’ part. For this one, with pictures of every number between 1 and 100, the kids made all of the groups and took all of the pictures.
- This movie was made more by me but was an opportunity for students to ‘write the script.’
- This is my favorite kind of movie. The kids took all of the pictures, we dumped them into moviemaker (I think), and then the kids sorted the pictures by shape. Then we recorded the narration. This allowed the movie to be both process and product.