Archive | February 2022

Desmos – Let’s learn together- Major project

Desmos is a blend of paper and technology, it is an amazing and powerful facilitation tool for teachers and students as it provides wide range of resources. It is a free graphing calculator, and teachers can use Desmos to help students connect mathematical concepts to concrete, real-world shapes and pictures. Recently, desmos completed its curriculum for math’s subjects from grade 6th to 8th, in this curriculum desmos includes various courses, units and chapters for teachers and students.

Desmos Math curriculum-

Desmos’s math curriculum is very flexible as it is the combination of innovative technology and creative ideas of students. Students can learn & develop new things by using their intuitions and own thinking. Desmos curriculum, and lessons are designed in such a way that, it encourages students to use their own ideas first before using formal mathematics chapter, which ultimately enhances student’s conceptual knowledge. Inside Desmos’s curriculum guide, we will find various facilitation tool i.e., courses, units, lessons, lesson guides and so on. https://learn.desmos.com/curriculum-guide

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I have used the Desmos graphing calculator few times and I must say that it works pretty well for graphing most functions. It allows you to do polar, parametric and piece-wise definitions as well. This tool is very new for me, as I didn’t use this before but when I helped my cousin in her school math’s work, and I realized, it is the best tool for doing quadratic equations and all.

Here I am sharing my first desmos activity, and in this graphic, I tried to show, how we use various functions to show our work, and teach our students about concepts like parabola in vertex, standard, and factored form, concept of straight (horizontal and vertical) lines and many more. Moreover, Students learn by doing and instantly see changes to their graphs as they manipulate values and these activities allow the students to play and help them figure out how functions are graphed. I am looking forward to learn new features of desmos.

ART OF PARABOLA & LINE

While using desmos, various concerns come in our mind, whether desmos is safe to use, is this tool intended for school? whether our data and digital identity of students and teachers are secure. For all the answers, I must say, yes!!, because of its security and privacy policy. https://privacy.commonsense.org/evaluation/desmos

 

 

Thank you

Lovepreet kaur

My Digital identity

  It is the first time that I have had to identify my online identity and acknowledge it.  My method of representing myself online is the same as my method in person, despite having not had to face this question before.  Transparency is something I deeply believe in; what you see is what you get. When you are in college, you are supposed to be independent and independent in your thinking. However, when you share these thoughts with others through social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram it can prove to be challenging. The shared opinions and ideals often offend people. During college, a student has the opportunity to establish a solid foundation for a professional career through academic achievements; however, online identities can have negative consequences. Heinrichs writes about being authentic when speaking to an audience and expressing your truth. Having the freedom to interact however you want, even when it is online, is challenging for me as an undergraduate. Even though I try to maintain my identity online, it is challenging.

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      Because my family didn’t have a computer in the house when I was a child, the only time I saw one was in elementary school computer class. After learning more about the internet and its dangers as I grew older, I started hearing about children being online predators and personal information being stolen. Myspace and Facebook became popular when I was in high school, however, my mother forbade me from having an online profile until I was in my junior year.  As I became a young adult, and began college, I began to build my online profile more. My college experience gave me complete access to a computer and a smart phone with apps, which allowed me to access social networking sites across a multitude of platforms. My first reason for signing up for a Facebook account was to stay connected with friends, family, and coworkers. After that, for this class, I created a Twitter account because it was a convenient and quick way to share thoughts with others and use hashtags to connect with others.  To share and learn about other people’s ideas and inventions, I created a YouTube channel and a Pinterest page so that I could also share my love of music, fashion, cooking, hair, and make-up. Even later, looking back, the things I posted and shared don’t make any sense.  Social media wasn’t being used as intended by me, and I found myself in a place where I wish I hadn’t connected with the internet in the first place. After receiving messages from people on social media, I began to interact with them. That’s not a bad thing, is it? No, it’s not. As a result of some of these conversations, I became close friends with some really incredible people.

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Digital Identity and Citizenship Connection

My academic persona and online identity are more different than similar, I notice. My online sharing of ideas was a reflection of discussions I would have with my peers and even mentors. People can interpret things differently whether in person or online, which makes it hard at times to convey your message. We believe that everything should be perceived the same whether in person or online. Some differences arose because of things I heard or saw in the past that made me hesitant to share too much personal information. Sharing information about things I would rarely discuss with others was unusual for me. Throughout many of my social media sites, I was associated with people who shared private and sacred information for me to see. I came to believe this because people were sharing so much about me. Honestly, I believe you shouldn’t share everything you have to deal with everyone because not everyone cares to hear about your success or failures. I feared that if I shared too much information on my social media, they would not take me seriously as a scholar since I shared so much information with them. 

Digital citizenship and the shared commons were discussed on the topic of digital identity, while acknowledging that citizenship poses a number of issues relating to borders, empire, and power. Essentially, digital identity and citizenship go hand-in-hand, because as we become identities together, we shape the space we all live in. However. As far as I am concerned – and I still think I was right about this – the other side of the argument did indeed blindside me. I hadn’t fully recognized how digital identity contradicts the notion of cooperation and collaboration, two aspects of digital citizenship I needed to understand before standing in front of the keynote audience.

Major project with Ribble’s nine elements

As I did not use much digital resources in my teaching and learning but now, I know, not much but few digital sites that really helpful for learning math’s. Out of these resources I really like the desmos as it provides equal opportunities to every student. I have used the Desmos graphing calculator few times, and I must say that it works pretty well for graphing most functions. Well, it is true that for learning & understanding Math’s, we really don’t need a graphing tool but sometimes it really helpful for the students and teachers to understand it very well. It has a lot of applications such as graphing calculator, scientific calculator, four function calculator, and, matrix calculator that really helps the students and teachers to do mathematics.

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In the starting I planned that I will only use two to three elements of Ribble but after reading, Nine Elements (digitalcitizenship.net) about all the elements I realised that, Ribble’s nine elements such as (a) Digital access (b) Digital commerce (c) Digital communication and collaboration (d) Digital etiquette (e) Digital fluency (f) Digital health and welfare (g) Digital Law (h) Digital rights and responsibility (i) Digital security and privacy, all are completely fit into using Desmos curriculum while learning mathematics, as it provides equal distribution to teachers & students. Teachers can use this as a teaching resource and students can enhance their mathematical knowledge by bringing digital media into their education. Because of its interactive and creative activities, it provides equal opportunities to each and every student. That means it is equally digital accessible to everyone. According to the second element, definitely, it is best way for digital communication and collaboration and use of desmos is very flexible and creative as it is a blend of paper and technology. Moreover, it provides an open platform to teachers & students to enhance their problem-based thinking, and encourage collaboration. With the help of “Desmos’s MATH curriculum and design”, it become a best facilitation tool for everyone.   

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There is no doubt that it is a time-consuming process to create good interactive resources but I use this instead of using a PowerPoint specially when teaching Live, i.e., in online classes. During covid- time, I used it for first time while teaching my cousins and the experience was awesome!! It has a lot of benefits such as: it is easy to pick, scope of improvement in every concept. Moreover, it provides more chances of interactions between students and teachers. Overall, I believe that, it is a fantastic tool to learn math’s. Now, I am looking forward to learn about more digital tools such as Flipgrid, Scribjab, and story book Canada from this class and class fellows, so that I can try new things in my classroom.

-Thank you