4.3 Diversity, Cultural Understanding & Global Awareness
Candidates model and facilitate the use of digital tools and resources to support diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding, and increase global awareness.
Artifact: Environmental Web Quest
Reflection:
This artifact is a Web Quest created for my multimedia design project. It focuses on modeling real world phenomenon with linear and exponential functions. It also requires students to create a persuasive argument based on their mathematical calculations to improve an environmental issue. Originally, each page had a link to listen to the page being read aloud, but that feature expired on the hosting site where I made the web quest.
In this artifact, I facilitated the use of digital tools to support diverse learners by providing text, audio, and visuals for their assignments. I also gave students a choice in how they displayed their final product. They could create a pamphlet, video, or PowerPoint to raise awareness of their environmental issue.
I also facilitated the use of digital tools to enhance cultural understanding and increase global awareness by having the linear and exponential functions model real world environmental issues. As a result, students have a better understanding of the world around them. Students also learn to present their mathematical findings in a way that will resound with the culture around us. Students were required to make a commercial, pamphlet, or presentation that would convince people to take action to improve their environmental issue. Students were asked to display their mathematics in an interesting way that everybody could understand. This required them to think about our culture and respond appropriately.
This artifact taught me that mathematics is more engaging when it is tied to real world data. It also gave me ideas for incorporating more global awareness and cultural understanding into my classroom. I would improve this web quest by partnering with the environmental science teacher at my school to provide even more relevant and current environmental issues for my students to research. It would also be amazing if students had the opportunity to consult with an environmentalist and share their final products.
This artifact is a Web Quest created for my multimedia design project. It focuses on modeling real world phenomenon with linear and exponential functions. It also requires students to create a persuasive argument based on their mathematical calculations to improve an environmental issue. Originally, each page had a link to listen to the page being read aloud, but that feature expired on the hosting site where I made the web quest.
In this artifact, I facilitated the use of digital tools to support diverse learners by providing text, audio, and visuals for their assignments. I also gave students a choice in how they displayed their final product. They could create a pamphlet, video, or PowerPoint to raise awareness of their environmental issue.
I also facilitated the use of digital tools to enhance cultural understanding and increase global awareness by having the linear and exponential functions model real world environmental issues. As a result, students have a better understanding of the world around them. Students also learn to present their mathematical findings in a way that will resound with the culture around us. Students were required to make a commercial, pamphlet, or presentation that would convince people to take action to improve their environmental issue. Students were asked to display their mathematics in an interesting way that everybody could understand. This required them to think about our culture and respond appropriately.
This artifact taught me that mathematics is more engaging when it is tied to real world data. It also gave me ideas for incorporating more global awareness and cultural understanding into my classroom. I would improve this web quest by partnering with the environmental science teacher at my school to provide even more relevant and current environmental issues for my students to research. It would also be amazing if students had the opportunity to consult with an environmentalist and share their final products.