Lesson Five

Lesson five was an interesting lesson to go through. This is my first time using any sort of electronic communication besides email or the occasional chat. Just signing/creating this account I realized that this was going to be an interesting technique to communicate with not only my teacher for the course, but with the parents and guardians of all my students. Looking over the lessons that I did last year I realized that I have not only short changed myself but my students as well. There has been plenty of times that I could have easily used chats and/or blogs with my students in the lessons. The major reason that I never used any of these among others is because I have never been to familiar with anything other than email. As soon as we all hit our teenage years we feel that we MUST have an email account to communicate with our friends without our parents knowing. Needless to say this was me as a teenager. However, times have changed. At an earlier age students/children are getting email accounts through school and privately, they are using cell phones for chatting, and constantly chatting online. Before a student walks into my room they have more than likely already used some form of electronic communication. Toward the end of the first school semester the school district placed Smart Boards in the classroom. Using the Smart Board will allow me to open up new doors to my classes. I can also use the school new Mac Books or my personal laptop to allow my students to participate in different classes across the world. I have been doing research online about how other countries teach math in their classrooms. I think that it would be an amazing experience for my students to participate in a math class that is occurring in a country on the other side of the world. I would also like to create a lesson that allows my students to communicate through online chat sessions with other schools. As the school year approaches I am trying harder and harder to come up with ways to allow my students to communicate electronically with other students from different areas.