As far as this one goes, it describes how technology can be used to meet the needs of Maslow's Hierarchy.
Technology cannot address the first level of "Biological and Physical needs" such as air, food, drink, etc. It can however, meet the rest.
Safety is a huge issue in the here and now. I do not believe we do enough of this in my school when it comes to technology. I know that there are several topics that are not addressed with our students because we just think it is assumed that they know all about proper digital citizenship. I am guilty of this. There have been several things I have learned about this school year and one of the things is that we do need to slow down and help them with other topics/subjects that no one has addressed before and this would be one of them.
The next level is social needs. Let's face it...our kids connect online better than they do in person. The author of this article believes we should be "providing learners with time, resources, permission, and tips for developing their own personal learning networks." My question is how? How would I do this in the math classroom?
Esteem Needs: This is a big one with technology. Social media can most definitely ruin your self-esteem or it can boost it. Many people feel much better about their "online self" than their real self. However, I can attest to this one. In my STEM and math classroom, technology allows the students to design their own 3D models and when they get them after being printed, they are in awe. They cannot believe they were capable of doing that.
Cognitive Needs: This article states that we are being too limited when it comes down to the restrictions of our student's technology. We are not allowing them to grow as much as we should be by allowing them to only explore certain things. We need to shorten the list of restrictions.
Aesthetic Needs: Basically, we should be involving their outside interests in our curriculum. I agree with this. If you can show them how their hobbies and activities can be used in the content, they will buy in.
Self-Actualization Needs: How to be involved in the community and how to grow as a person is most definitely something we should be helping them with. Technology can be super helpful in this. We just need to guide them in the right direction.
I did not know this was a thing....or I did, but did not know it has a specific name. I do this in my STEM class, but have yet to figure out how to do it in my mathematics class. It is all things STEM. Students are in charge of their learning and they create a model that describes their findings/learnings. A lot of the time, there is some leg work that needs to be done before the students can jump right in to being a constructionist because they need to learn how to use the platforms that will make this successful. Honestly, I think it is the teachers that make this unsuccessful because some of us are so afraid to change and grow, which hinders our student's learning. If we took the time to learn the platforms, then took the time to show our students, their learning could change significantly.
3. Minecraft has an education platform! I did not know this was a thing, but I am interested to learn more about it.
4. #STEMeducation is awesome! I have an instagram account where I share all of our STEM project so I was curious if someone else did this on Twitter. Sure enough, I was right and someone does! @davidcrowell shares all kinds of his student's projects and it is awesome. You should check it out!
5. As I am sitting here in Nashville on vacation, I thought about looking up something about math in music on the internet to see what I could find. I was not disappointed. This website explained a lot: Math in Music
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