Technology Project Preparing for Surface AreaEDCI 890Melissa Miller

Participants

- 10 honors math students

- Requirements:- No more than 4

per class period- Volunteer basis

Pre-Assessment

Interview

I conversed with a small group of students about the following topics:

Do you know what surface area is? Do you think math is difficult when you learned

something a long time ago and then you have to remember it again?

Do you feel like you can learn independently using tools and videos from the internet?

Do you feel confident that you can teach math concepts that you are good at?

Do you feel comfortable working with an iPad or a computer and using web 2.0 tools on the internet independently or with a partner?

Pre-Assessment Results

Do you know what surface area is? None of the students new what surface area was.

Do you think math is difficult when you learned something a long time ago and then you have to remember it again?

They all agreed that it was nice to have a quick review and hard to learn 2 things at once.

Do you feel like you can learn independently using tools and videos from the internet?

100% yes Do you feel confident that you can teach math concepts that you

are good at? 60% felt very confident the remaining 40% thought they could do it

but were a bit more hesitant. Do you feel comfortable working with an iPad or a computer and

using web 2.0 tools on the internet independently or with a partner?

80% were very comfortable with an iPad or iPhone 100% were comfortable with Microsoft tools Web 2.0 tools: none of the students knew that term so I listed

several tools they might use 0% had experience using some of the tools but 100% felt confident in their computer skills and wanted to try.

Completing the Project

Completing the Project

Completing the Project

Link to Edmodo: https://www.edmodo.com/home Link to Class generated website:

http://kidsdosurfacearea.weebly.com/

Post-Assessment Using Rubric

Rubric for Surface Area Skill ReviewCategory Poor – 1 Point Good – 2 Points Excellent – 3

PointsBlog Posting Student posted 1 or

2 times. The response did not communicate information clearly or provide new ideas and insights to the conversation.

Student posted 3 or 4 times. The response did communicate information clearly but did not provide new ideas and insights to the conversation.

Student posted 5 or 6 times. The response did communicate information clearly and provided new ideas and insights to the conversation.

Skills Identified

Students identified 2 skills needed to successful compute surface area.

Students identified 4 skills needed to successful compute surface area.

Students identified 6 skills needed to successful compute surface area.

Resources found/created

Student found similar resources that reviewed content but not a lot of variety we present. Student did not create any resources themselves.

Student found a small variety of resources that reviewed content and students created 1 resource themselves.

Each type of resource presented content in a different way or through a different medium. At least 50% of the resources were created by the students.

Multiple Representations

Students only represented the skill/knowledge one way.

About 50% of the skills/knowledge had multiple representations.

All of the skills/knowledge had multiple representations.

Web 2.0 Tools

Students used 1 or 2 web 2.0 tools throughout the entire project.

Students used 3-5 web 2.0 tools throughout the entire project.

Students used 5+ web 2.0 tools throughout the entire project.

Digital Citizenship

Student did not give credit to borrowed images and content.

Students attempted to give credit but either not all resources were cited or not all were cited appropriately

Students cited each resource correctly.

Post-Assessment Using Rubric

Rubric for Surface Area Skill ReviewCategory Poor – 1 Point Good – 2 Points Excellent – 3

PointsBlog Posting Student posted 1 or

2 times. The response did not communicate information clearly or provide new ideas and insights to the conversation.

Student posted 3 or 4 times. The response did communicate information clearly but did not provide new ideas and insights to the conversation.

Student posted 5 or 6 times. The response did communicate information clearly and provided new ideas and insights to the conversation.

Skills Identified

Students identified 2 skills needed to successful compute surface area.

Students identified 4 skills needed to successful compute surface area.

Students identified 6 skills needed to successful compute surface area.

Resources found/created

Student found similar resources that reviewed content but not a lot of variety we present. Student did not create any resources themselves.

Student found a small variety of resources that reviewed content and students created 1 resource themselves.

Each type of resource presented content in a different way or through a different medium. At least 50% of the resources were created by the students.

Multiple Representations

Students only represented the skill/knowledge one way.

About 50% of the skills/knowledge had multiple representations.

All of the skills/knowledge had multiple representations.

Web 2.0 Tools

Students used 1 or 2 web 2.0 tools throughout the entire project.

Students used 3-5 web 2.0 tools throughout the entire project.

Students used 5+ web 2.0 tools throughout the entire project.

Digital Citizenship

Student did not give credit to borrowed images and content.

Students attempted to give credit but either not all resources were cited or not all were cited appropriately

Students cited each resource correctly.

Reflection

Highlights

Students had a purpose for doing the assignment they saw value in what they were creating

Students used new web 2.0 tools that they had not used before.

Students used higher level thinking by developing activities that would be fun and engaging to them and classmates.

Students collaborated and practiced working as a team.

Students built confidence in their abilities.

Reflections of Student Learning

Every student interacted with at least one new tool they had not used before.

Students were self learners of the ideas behind surface area.

Students were able to analyze the skills they needed to have mastered in order to correctly perform surface area.

Using technology increased productivity, engagement, and productive work time.

The students are excited to share their knowledge and product with their classmates.

The students were easily able to communicate digitally and using the class whiteboard.

Improvements

Technology was not always cooperative which made completing the project on time challenging for certain students.

I had to be flexible and change sharing interface. The group should have been much smaller. Groups of 5-6 would

have been better. Digital citizenship: when they learned they would have to cite

resources they found they decided they just wanted to create their own. Next time, this needs to be a requirement.

The idea of citing seemed scary and overwhelming so I will need to provide some type of instruction or resource on how to do that.

Design: the students had very little concept of design. On the website I had to make a list of things they needed to change for example background pictures. They need instruction or an example of what a completed website should look like.

Accountability/Communication with Instructor: Since the students were working independently (I was almost always trying to fix a tech problem) students should have recorded what they got accomplished and set a goal for the next day using Edmodo. This would allow me to communicate with them and offer suggestions and tips as they were going along.