Math and Technology

This podcast was titled "Mathematics with Technology" and comes from the Maine Department of Education. The narrated of the video was Judy Chandler. In this video, Chandler expresses her views on the importance of math. She feels that math is one of the most important subjects and that students must learn math well to succeed in school and life. She also talks about different possibilities of using technology in the classroom to help children in the learning process.

Chandler also talked about the idea of using laptops in the classroom. She stated that she felt that teachers taught out of the book entirely too much and that they were getting disconnected from their students. She felt that if you use laptops and other such technology in the classroom, it would give students hands on activities and would enhance the learning process.

Another idea that she had that was pretty obvious, yet very important, was to simply ask lots of questions to the students. Asking them questions helps them to think quickly and critically and if you don't ask them question, how do you expect them to learn anything?

I think that Chandlers podcast was very good. It really makes you think about the possibilities of using different kinds of technologies in your classroom. I think that this is one of the only ways to get though to students today and that we are just going to have to keep up with the times to relate to our students. All in all, it was a very good and informative podcast.