Friday, November 9, 2012

Activity #4 - Moodle/Concept Mapping




Wordle: Using Technology to Prepare ELLs in Math for College and Career

Wordle would be helpful in my classroom for vocabulary words. Math is like a whole new language and it would be awesome to list math words for different aspects of math and have a nice Wordle to display to remind kids of the most important words to know and understand. This would be a great pre- and post- class or group activity. It will withdraw prior knowledge of certain words and we would be able to compare the pre-Wordle with the post-Wordle to see how students’ understanding developed by the end of the unit or lesson. Wordle is so easy to use and very versatile.
I had never really thought of using concept mapping for math, but now, I envision great things using this activity. 
Students can use a mapping concept to show and explain the steps or procedures to the different ways to solve problems. I would like them to show the preferred process and a process they have seen or even used themselves. From this, they will be able to compare and explain why the preferred route is correct. I would have the students search and include links to websites, webpages, or videos that explain the process in a more clear way for others to understand. Concept maps are a great way for students to learn to organize their scattered thoughts, which will lead to increased, and organized understanding, which will lead to deeper thinking abilities.


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