Karl, Julia and I are meeting one last time today to go over everything and practice our presentation. I have learned so much about Cognitivism, and hope the others in both classes can profit from the lesson.
In other news, I'm also working on getting my PLT outline done. I've decided to work on finding a solution to the age-old math question, "When will we ever need this??" As a math teacher, I hear this question quite frequently. I have found, though, that it is mostly asked when my students find a unit particularly challenging. They get frustrated that they are "getting it," and decide they'll never need it anyway, so why bother? I hope to find ways to incorporate the "why's," and "when's," of each topic into my lessons so that they know the answer before they'd ask the question.
I found a few cartoons I enjoy:
" Oh Mrs. Stinson, this isn't MATH class!"
ReplyDeleteSorry we did not get to present, but I think some clarification was needed between cohorts. I like your idea of the online. I too am looking at tackling how to design effective 3D virtual lab activties. Cognitivism is one of my pieces as I think they should be designed keeping in mind that high school student are at all different levels of cognitive development. I stopped asking when I was going to use certain math concepts when I went to college and had to take 2 semesters of calculus and 2 semesters of physics! That pretty much shut me up! :-)
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