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Teaching Today

2008-04-10T21:56:00.000-07:00

I found this website to be very interesting specially the link about Grades 9-12 Mathematics. One of the article from this link that caught my eyes was Math Refreshers for Teachers. This article is about the importance of utilizing the teacher's edition text book, the importance of join professional mathematics organizations like National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, using the State Department of Education web page as a resource, how fellow teachers can be a great resource and an excellent support system, the importance of attending workshops offer by the school district, and taking mathematics classes at the community college to add to your content knowledge.

Perils and Pitfalls of Wikipedia

2008-02-24T09:59:00.000-08:00

This article is about the history and the use of wikipedia which may not be a reliable source when it comes to research, but people who are using wikipedia are encourage to check the facts by using different other sources for their research as well.

What Should We Teach? Rethinking Literacy

2008-02-18T11:22:00.000-08:00

This article talks about the twenty-first century literacy that is offered by the New Media Consortium (2005) and how is introduced to students today. Through the New Media Consortium students would be able to expand their new skills and still use their old skills.
In order for the students to be able to understand better and put in practice the new participatory culture they must be able to read and write. The New Digital cultures will provide support for the student and will help improve their core competencies as readers and writers which will help them receive feed back on their writing and also exceed and gain experience in their communications skills. Also through media students will develop better technical skills, like knowing how to search, use different programs, learn basic programming and also will give them a better perspective of the world.

Web 2.0

2008-02-06T18:05:00.000-08:00

I remeber the first day when I came to class and I heard about Web 2.0 I thought that this is a new internet that I am going to learn about it, but after reading the article I realize that Web 2.0 is the term given to describe a second generation of the World Wide Web that is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online. I think Web 2.0 is very useful because back in the days when I went to school the only way that I could collaborate and share information with my group’s partners on writing mathematical proofs for our problems was to meet in the library.