{"id":74,"date":"2013-05-09T20:43:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrmclaughlin.com\/web\/?p=74"},"modified":"2022-11-21T20:55:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:55:08","slug":"teach-2033-what-would-you-do-without-your-technology-05-09-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/09\/teach-2033-what-would-you-do-without-your-technology-05-09-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach 2033: What would you do without your technology? 05\/09\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

What would you do without your technology? \u00a0The other day my bulb for my projector blew out. \u00a0It was at the end of the day so no classes were affected, but I was faced with the question: What am I going to do tomorrow? \u00a0I have no other board in my classroom other than my smart board. \u00a0So I put on my thinking cap and got to work. \u00a0I grabbed a portable\u00a0whiteboard\u00a0from the library and began\u00a0preparing\u00a0my materials for my classes. \u00a0Unfortunately\u00a0I was planning to do work with ellipses and the\u00a0Hall of Statuary<\/a>\u00a0in my precalc classes (Washington DC \u2026 YouTube it) . \u00a0We had already seen the video and were getting involved in the calculations. \u00a0I found myself going to find some string and tape to make a tool to draw and ellipse on the board (something that would have taken 10 seconds to do with the smart board). \u00a0I had a Notebook document with all the notes for the class prepared including diagrams and pictures. \u00a0It was too much to redraw on my tiny whiteboard so I printed out handouts. \u00a0I had to do similar things for my geometry class and algebra 2 class. \u00a0It took two hours of prep work to match what I had prepared digitally in at least 25% of the time. \u00a0I found myself thinking that there is no way I could do this everyday. \u00a0When I think about technology in the classroom it has become so\u00a0embedded\u00a0in the way I teach that\u00a0replacing\u00a0it with other methods would be too time\u00a0consuming\u00a0to be possible.<\/p>\n

For our students that are moving into 2033 the perspective of the world has changed. \u00a0Technology is no longer an add on. \u00a0It is not a nice thing to add to a lesson. \u00a0It has become so integral to the lesson that without it the lesson become next to impossible to reproduce. \u00a0I\u00a0believe\u00a0I am covering content more deeply and and\u00a0authentically\u00a0than\u00a0I ever could 10 or 15 years ago. \u00a0 Technology has allowed my to connect the real world into my classroom to make the math do what it was designed to do:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics \u2026 the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word\u201d\u00a0Galileo Galilei<\/p>\n

Math is used to explain our universe \u2026 we don\u2019t use the universe to explain math\u2026<\/p>\n

Think about how teaching with technology has changed the way you teach and what would you do if you lost it for a day \u2026a week, a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What would you do without your technology? \u00a0The other day my bulb for my projector blew out. \u00a0It was at the end of the day so no classes were affected, but I was faced with the question: What am I going to do tomorrow? \u00a0I have no other board in my classroom other than my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}