Sarah is a 16 year old in high school, and has a FormSpring account. There, other students in the school, as well as people that she does not know are harassing her online. This kind of bullying is becoming increasingly popular among high school students.
Anonymity on the Internet
The following is a video is a dramatization of what anonymity on the internet can do. The ability to remain anonymous can be good for children on the internet. From a young age, we try to teach students that they need to keep their identity private by choosing names that do not reflect who they truly are. We also teach them not to reveal their home location as well. The website that is particularly pointed to in this video is the website FormSpring.
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This screencast was created to discuss table of contents. These can be especially helpful if you have a paper or presentation that has multiple sections or subsections. After you have finished watching the screencast, please fill out this form in order to provide feedback.
Edutopia
While reading the Edutopia article, Ten Top Tips For Teaching With New Media, the tip that I found most interesting was "Tip #4, Think Globally". The particular website that appealed to me was from The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education. This site was of particular interest to me, because it allows students to not only be able to learn about different projects that may only be "theoretical" in a traditional classroom, but it also gets them involved with other students from other schools in both the US and around the world.
This website takes real world projects and integrates schools together to be able to solve problems. Students can learn about the weather using real world data or they can collaboratively design aquoponic systems that can sustain life. Students from grades K - 12 can access this information to be able to have a deeper understanding of concepts, and obtain viewpoints from other students.
In a mathematics class, students could use the real world data provided to make inferences and plot data to make analyses. This would be useful for statistics, because it would bring an abstract idea of analysis to a tangible activity such as weather, or plants. This type of analysis also crosses disciplines and could be used with a math class and a science class to bridge understandings and disciplines. Making these kinds of connections will help students understand the material since they'll be able to see both the analysis theory and application.
Thinking globally is something that is applicable not only to education, but it is also more and more important within the business world. Globalization affects all areas of life, and the earlier that students are able to make connections and interactions with people around the globe the better they'll be able to make connections later on in life. Understanding the importance of both national and international collaborations will give students an advantage when they are in the business world, academia, or wherever their life takes them.
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This screencast was created to discuss weighted average. Weighted averages are helpful, especially if you need to create a grade book in Microsoft Excel. These types of averages are not complicated, and can be easily tailored to create a unique average. After you have finished watching the screencast, please fill out this form in order to provide feedback.
Webquest
This webquest is designed to help you understand more about complex (or imaginary) numbers. Please look at this webquest, and while you do use this form to complete it.
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The following screencast is a brief introduction on how to insert an equation into a MS Word Mac 08 document. An equation using a definite integral is used for this screencast. When using the equation editor for Mac 08, the equations will appear in the document as an image but can be double clicked upon to edit it again.
Geocaching
The sport of Geocaching is an international scavenger hunt that uses GPS technology to find "caches" that are located in the woods, in cities, or anywhere else you can think of. The following are just a few caches that require mathematical skills to solve for their coordinates:
(By following these links, you will be able to view the cache description, but you will not be able to see the coordinates unless you create a free Geocaching membership.)
Here is a brief introduction to the sport:
Terence Tao
The following video is a short biographical sketch of Terence Tao, a Fields Medal Recipient for is work in mathematics. Terence began school earlier then most, and had received a PhD by the age of 21. He is truly an outstanding mathematician and an enormous asset to the field (especially Number Theory).
