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b. engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources
====c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes==== ====d. model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments====

Mathematics traditional - Drill and kill Think pair share Group collaboration Traditional lecture Group practice to mastery collaboration

Constructivist mathematics Group collaboration - WWW. EVERYONE. EDU Traditional lecture is brought to the students in a video web based touch that the students go at their own pace Mastery is automatically confirmed through computer simulation Student centered learning is performed through group discussion and maintaining project goals.

Reflection on Flat Earth
 * I was shocked! I always knew that something like this exhisted, numerous schools studying a single topic and not just discussing but competing against one another and learning from the experience. Frankly, we have accelerator groups, but when you show them that other students their age completing something this large and this indepth it really motivates them to go above and beyond their normal capabilities. I can't wait to just get a little community board with my own school and then work our way up to something this large scale, just hoping that by the time I recieve technology that will allow us to do something like this that the idea is still available. (Though by then something will come out that is better)

Reflection on wiki use The wiki is a great (free) tool that educators can use in order to share information with their students along with putting their own creative spin on a teacher made website. Now, I have two websites, (this one) mrd-math.wikispaces.com, and one that my school offered me from teacherweb.com. I have yet to go on to teacher web because I have heard that I cannot do some of the things on this site on my teacherweb acount. (Such as: embed video or other multimedia functions) Collaboration is a must and with its own discussion board and embedding of different types of documents a teacher can use a wikispace site to maintain the level of of technological advancement in their own classes. You can even have tests embedded to the wiki site through Quia.com and evaluate the students online.

Here's now time for my little rant on the over use of internet servicing. In my school district we have blackboard. (Great site, has a lot of interesting things that you can use in order to evaluate and maintain your classroom, BUT it is very confusing. Even for myself whom I feel has a very good grasp of what and how a website should be able to be controlled. They have lots of things on this site that are good tools in their own right, but I feel with the right methods you can have on FREE sites that are more user friendly.) Moral of the story, just because we pay for it, doesn't make it great.

Lastly, just wanted to share how I intend on using my wikispace in the future. Next year (crossing my fingers) I am on the verge of receiving my own classroom set of laptops. (to my specification they will either be a moderately low level net book or Apple macbooks which is what my administration wants me to use...either way I don't care what they get me) With my own set of laptops I intend to have the students use the computers every other day, maybe MWF is computer days. With the computers I want to put my entire text book on my wiki along with the "projects" the students need to complete each marking period. I have found some great classroom management software that allows me to maintain my class, collaborate with them, and distribute materials in under a second allowing them more time for projects and more time going through the class at their own pace. With wiki I want to have all of this for them when they are in my class and when they go home. For those who do not have internet at home I will have a wireless printer in the room which will allow them to print from anywhere in the room and take the assignment home to work on paper pencil wise.**