Integrating IT into the Science & Mathematics Classroom

1. Integrating IT into the Science & Mathematics Classroom Barry Hannah Lester B. Pearson School Board

2. Pig Personality Profile

3. Pig Personality Profile On a blank piece of 8½ x 11 paper, draw a pig Don't look at your neighbors' pigs Don't even glance Time’s Up! You have 10 seconds…. You have 1 minute…. You have 2 minutes…. You have 3 minutes….

4. Pig Personality Profile If the pig is drawn . . . Toward the top of the paper, you are a positive, optimistic person. Toward the middle of the paper, you are a realist. Toward the bottom of the paper, you are a pessimist and have a tendency to be negative. Facing left, you are traditional, friendly, and good at remembering dates, including birthdays. Facing forward (or angled forward), you are direct, enjoy playing "the devil's advocate,“ and neither fear nor avoid discussions. Facing right, you are innovative and active but do not have a strong sense of family, and you are not good at remembering dates. With many details, you are analytical, cautious, and distrustful. With few details, you are emotional and naive, care little for details, and are a risk-taker. With four legs showing, you are secure and stubborn, and you stick to your ideals. With less than four legs, you are insecure or are going through a period of major change. With large ears, you are a good listener. The larger the ears, the better listener you are. And, last but not least…the longer the pig’s tail you have drawn, the more satisfied you are with the quality of romance in your life!

5. Workshop Organization • Introduction • Why and How? • Web 2.0 • Where to find resources • Presentation of some resources • Experimentation & sharing

6. Why bother? • Current students are digital natives • Learning styles • Differentiation • Employment skills • George Lucas Foundation Paper

7. 4 Points from the Glenn Report • The rapid pace of change in both the increasingly interdependent global economy and the American workplace demands widespread mathematics- and science-related knowledge and abilities. • Our citizens need both mathematics and science for their everyday decision making. • Mathematics and science and inextricably linked to the nation's security interests. • The deeper, intrinsic value of mathematical and scientific knowledge shape and define our common life, history, culture. Mathematics and science are primary sources of lifelong learning and the progress of our civilization."

8. How to do it Teach concepts over skills • Search strategies • Information credibility • Workspace ergonomics • Debugging

9. Q: What do the digital natives want?A: Web 2.0 What is web 2.0? • Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (O'Reilly Radar definition October 2006) • Web 2.0 is about the more human aspects of interactivity. It's about conversations, interpersonal networking, personalization, and individualism... In Web 2.0, information flows in multiple directions, is user-generated, and is shared widely.(George Lorenzo, Diana Oblinger and Charles Dziuban (2007))

10. Static content Requires user to go get it Need some web design skills to design and upload pages Single person usually responsible for content Dynamic content “Pushes” the content to the user Know how to type (formatting done via CSS) Content generated/ reviewed/ edited collaboratively WWW vs Web 2.0

12. Some components of Web 2.0 • RSS • Blogs • Wikis • Podcasting / Vodcasting • Social Bookmarking • Social networking – Flickr, facebook, myspace, youtube • e-Portfolios • e-Learning

13. Resources • Bookmarks • Social (del.icio.us, Diigo - formerly Furl) • Personal (browser based, synchronizable) • Browsing • Firefox • Extensions – Google, del.icio.us, IE tabs, many more

14. Resources - Where to find them • Listservs, Newsletters, Blogs & Podcasts • Internet Scout, techLearning News, NAEP • Websites • NSTA, NCTM, NASA, CSA, School boards • Search engines • Google, Kartoo, Vivisimo, etc. • Workshops, networking • Dreamcatching, in-house professional development

15. Elementary School Online videos Videoconferencing Interactive Whiteboards Collaborative Web Projects Computers Middle School Digital cameras Word processing Online High School Spreadsheets Graphing calculators PowerPoint Podcasts Resources … what kinds

16. Resources … what kinds • Software • Commercial Productivity (MS Office Suite) • Open Source Productivity (Open Office Suite) • Inspiration (Commercial concept mapping software) • cMap (Free concept mapping software) • Lego robotics (Mindstorms & RoboLab) • Course Management Software (Moodle, Sakai) • On-line applications • Gliffy, Peepel, Zoho, Skrbl, Wiki’s, blogs

17. Resources … a sampling Googlerules! • Google Calculator • Google Earth • Google Planimeter • Google Pedometer • Google Docs & Spreadsheets • Google in education

18. Websites Internet Scout - http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/ techLearning News - http://www.techlearning.com/ Gliffy - http://www.gliffy.com Skrbl - http://www.skrbl.com/ Peepel - http://www.peepel.com/ Google in education - http://googleined.wikispaces.com/ Math Links – Various National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html Science Links – Various Native American Geometry - http://earthmeasure.com/Education/Intro/hexprt.html