Blogging in my Geometry Classes
I have come to the conclusion that blogging in my Geometry classes is not working as well as I had planned. They are not seeing the purpose of blogging in geometry and they aren't commenting on other blogs. They have seen the importance of putting the homework assignment on the blogs but again the main purpose for me (the reason I wanted to try this) was to elaborate on the lesson and relate what we were doing to the real world (applications). Students were very vauge when writing about the application to what we were learning. So I have discovered that this needs to be something that we discuss in class. Hopefully this will open my students eyes to relating what we do in class to the real world and how they can apply what they are learning outside of class. We will see how the discussions continue to go with the real world applications.
posted by Missy Jonson @ 9:43 AM
3 Comments:
Let us know how the in-class discussions go. I think this is always a tough area in high school math.
I think that it is important to be willing to try new things in the classroom even though some of them might not work out as we would like.
I heard an example today of a school where the teacher in the math class appointed a "scribe" to put the information up on the blog each day or week, and they were responsible for finding/making the connections.
That might be an idea worth trying, I thought!
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