I appreciated the feedback and the insights. It is always nice to hear from different disciplines.
Reflection:
While approaching this challenge, I really wanted to think through the past 7 challenges. I thought about my interactions on Twitter with other math teachers, the tools I am already using in my classroom, the way my brother utilizes math and technology in his day-to-day work life, the simulations available to make math come alive for students, the challenges both myself and my students face in a math classroom, and my curriculum goals. I also drew on the course readings from each challenge and the insights that my peers shared in their annotations. The breakdown of TIP was particularly helpful as I created this plan. I used the TIP approach which I found very beneficial and will utilize in the future to make something that can feel a bit overwhelming feel much more organized. One of the major takeaways I have had over the past four weeks and particularly while working on this challenge was that I do not need to scrap everything that I have used over the past eight years of my teaching career. Rather, I need to look at it through a critical lens and look for opportunities to enhance what I am doing in my classroom. This is an activity that I have done in the past with students in some capacity, but have often felt like there were opportunities to build upon it. This allowed me to look at what I was doing that worked well and look for things that could make it work better. For many things in this course, I used the Common Core Standards of Mathematical Practice rather than individual skill standards because there are so many in math. Sometimes the Mathematical Practice standards can get pushed to the side for the individual content standards. A thought that I repeatedly had through this process what the opportunities that incorporating technology gives teachers to meet both the content and practice standards, all while preparing 21st century learners.
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