Development and implementation (where possible) of four technology enhanced/enabled or data collection worksheets, of your individual creation.

Outline a linear unit showing how you would change your textbook’s presentation and approach by introducing hands-on and technology activities.

In-class presentation based on an article from one of the NCTM magazines.

first up Oct. 25

Web Presentations - Josh 1/10, Julianne 1/17, William 1/17, Alicia 1/31, Dave 1/31, Leah 2/7, Jerry 2/21, Heidi 3/6, Leon 3/13, Bahman 3/20

Oct.Create a worksheet or teacher's notes for the Great Age Debate

Dec. 6

Write a worksheet or teacher's notes for the Driveer Activity

Add to you running commentary comments on the value (or lack of) of transformation and how you would use it in an function unit.

Add to your running commentary comments on data delivered in programs. What are the pros? The cons? Have you seen it used? How did it work?

• Add motion detectors to your on-going commentary. Discuss among other issues the Walker Activity and the Match-It Activity (which you will see next week). As you discuss these activities follow the lead from above
  • discuss pre-req. knowledge.
  • discuss learning objective (match it to a standard).
    
  • discuss where it fits in the curriculum.
    
  • discuss how to assess its XXX.
    
• Start a discussion of contextual problems.
  
• Add Navigator to your on-going commentary.
  
• Scan your papers from the rate-time-distance problems (will no longer mantion scanning papaers for electronic submission in Dec.)
  
• Revise your driver activity if needed. By the way is it an activity?
  
• Write a lesson plan for a teacher to do the Walker Activity. Bring this with you next week in paper form.

Dec. 6

Oct. 4

• Update your Driver Activity
• Devise plan for Crash Activity.
• Prepare for the Big Race.
• Add comments on the Match-It Activity and the Race Activity in your discussion paper.
• Add pentaminos to your discussion paper. Think of other uses if there are any:)

• Research why double periods were first introduced.
• For your tech journal write a discussion paper on determining what happens when a ball is dropped. In this paper discuss the various ways a class discussion could “go” that would help a student understand the situation. Also discuss why we would do this investigation and what course(s) it would be appropriate for.

• Write your share of the "ball" activites worksheets.
• In your discussion paper add comments on the differences between how the TRI-84 and Nspire handled translations.

• For you discussion paper, write on your experience learning about logistic function.
• For your discussion paper discuss the Interpreting graphs worksheet.
• Create an outline or 1 hands-on linear and 1 quadratic activity.

Continue working on your project.

For you discussion paper:

• Discuss the calculator as a way to introduce more realistic mathematics. How it enables math we don’t normally do. (Growth)
• Discuss how the calculator enabled us to look at a modeling problem through the definition of slope-intercept. (More Students Apply Early)
• Discuss using simply hands-on activities or devices that help visualize the situation as opposed to relying on imagination or a drawing on a sheet of paper.

Finsh the problems on the growth worksheet.

For you discussion paper add your thoughts on using the calculator to do recursion.

For Dec. 13 - Have your first run of a website put up.