Welcome to my blog! My first posts represent theoretical knowledge that I have already put into practice since beginning MET. I will continue to add posts as I cross (and recross) bridges or take time to pause (and occasionally "Break it down & Hammer Time") in my educational ecosystem. Like nature's ecosystems, making change in one area, will often affect others areas, favorably, not favorably or somewhere in between. I look forward to coming back to this page to reflect on the work I began in my master degree.
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Desmos and I first met at my first GAFE conference in the Fall of 2015. The presenter focused on pedagogy for high school mathematics and one of her go-to programs was Desmos.
And so began my love affair with the online, free graphing calculator, Desmos! The founders have made Desmos incredibly teacher and student friendly. (Concerned about selling your students' digital souls to big data? Go here if you would like to learn more about privacy and how they pay their bills.) With a site devoted to Desmos-created and user-created lessons, an educator can search for a ready-to-go lesson in minutes, and have their students in the program in seconds. It was from their main page, that I first learned about Desmos Art projects...
At this point in my MET, I was 2.5 courses in...
Topics such as participatory culture, affinity spaces, gaming and constructivism all got my wheels moving to bring more effective technology driven, constructivist powered pedagogy to my practice. My first attempt at creating a Desmos Art Project with my gifted Math 10 students was relatively successful. Many projects were incomplete, although every student was able to meet the minimum criteria. Here is a link to their work.
We don't have to be perfect out of the gates. Truth be told, perfection is RARELY required in education.
Three years into Desmos, I now have the ability to look back, reassess, and modify my approaches.
I have now adopted an LFU (Learning For Use) approach to my art project; shoutout to ETEC 533! Should anyone wish to launch their own Desmos Art Project, I have links to all of my material, including a grading rubric and exemplars, via my LFU reflection post from 533.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes with your learning.
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7/2/2023 04:26:34 pm
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