Putting Ideas into Practice: Final Reflection
Wrapping Up The Course
In this final lesson, participants will reflect on ways to transfer skills for creating visualizations to learn with understanding to students using a class discussion. According to Dimmel and Herbst, "As it becomes standard to use dynamic geometry software and other digital means of representation in mathematics classrooms, it becomes all the more important that students develop a sensibility for crafting and reading diagrams and other visuals[...] For the full potential of these resources to be realized, there needs to be an effort toward teaching diagram, stop literacy skills" (2015). Visualizations do not have as much powerful if students to not have to tools to make use of them. Thus, it is important to reflect on how we can transfer these skills to students.
We will reflect on this idea and a closing video in the discussion tab on this page. In addition to your reflection, participants will also comment on the reflections of others in the discussion tab.
Assignment
Watch Princeton University Speech- How Math Comes to Mind: Intuition, Visualization, and Teaching. This video clip summarizes most of the ideas we covered in this course.
Reflect and Discuss In the discussion tab, participants will post a three paragraph reflection on how to transfer some of the skills we explored in this course to our students. Please also reflect on your experience in this course as a whole: What did like about this course and what would you change if you have to teach a similar course in the future? Make contributions to advance the current topics discussed in the course. Participants will write a minimum of two posts in addition to their reflection and will either share something he/she learned, pose a question to the class, offer constructive criticism, or build on another participant's idea.
Thank you for participating in this course! Please remember to submit your demonstration lesson to the discussion tab for Lesson 2 and your peer review in the discussion tab in the Peer Review section.
Resources and References
Dimmel, J. and P. Herbst. (2015). "Semiotic Structure of Geometry Diagrams." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. Volume 26. Number 2.
Links
Back to Unit 3: Unit 3: Putting Ideas into Practice
Mini-Course: Using Visualizations to Teach Mathematics with Understanding (Spring 2015 Mini-Course)
Portfolio Page: Melissa Connor's Portfolio Page for Spring 2015 Mini-Course