Technology has greatly impacted on the ways of teaching learning. I believe it has provided teachers with lots of new options to explore and utilise effectively in delivery of lesson content in a more effective way. Gone are the days when students use to copy from the blackboard and do mathematics just with a monotonous chalk 'n' talk. Time has changed , so are the ways of teaching and learning.
Mathematics is a subject of hidden incredible creativity. Since I joined this profession, I keep on trying different ways for teaching my subject and delivering the content.I am very fascinated towards picture based learning techniques because I believe visualisation of a concept is essential for better understanding . I have lots of electronic gadgets which I keep on experimenting and using in my teaching. I have a camera mobile Nokia 6681. I thought of using my camera mobile for this purpose.
Here I am sharing my experiences…
In the beginning I use to click photographs from my surroundings showing mathematics. e.g. Photographs of boards and banners having different geometrical shapes, leaves of a tree showing some patterns of numbers, 3 dimensional architectures etc. When I showed these pictures to my students then they easily correlated them to what they learnt in their textbooks. I found it to be a quite useful strategy for learning and relating to daily life.
Then I gave it as a project assignment to my students and I received a incredible response from them. They used their mobiles for clicking each and every step of the procedure of their project work. I have uploaded their work on my blog http://mykhmsmathclass.blogspot.com/ . I would like to share links of some incredible work done by them. Here are the links :
In the beginning I use to click photographs from my surroundings showing mathematics. e.g. Photographs of boards and banners having different geometrical shapes, leaves of a tree showing some patterns of numbers, 3 dimensional architectures etc. When I showed these pictures to my students then they easily correlated them to what they learnt in their textbooks. I found it to be a quite useful strategy for learning and relating to daily life.
Then I gave it as a project assignment to my students and I received a incredible response from them. They used their mobiles for clicking each and every step of the procedure of their project work. I have uploaded their work on my blog http://mykhmsmathclass.blogspot.com/ . I would like to share links of some incredible work done by them. Here are the links :
- Making of a GeoBoard
We have a mathematics laboratory in our school. In mathematics laboratory we use to learn mathematics through hands on activities utilizing various strategies like paper folding, cutting and pasting etc. One day while teaching in the laboratory I thought of using my mobile for clicking photographs of each and every step of the laboratory activity. Experiment showed miraculous results. I made a slide shows on http://www.slide.com/ and a digital Photostory using the clicked pictures. You may view the slide shows http://mykhmsmathclass.slide.com . Then I upload them on my blog. With pictures and explanation, now math activities are more fun.
I have created some short videos of short cuts in mathematics using my Nokia 6681 mobile like this one. It is quite useful and helpful for students as well as teachers. Also videos created by mobile are easily transferred to computers and uploaded to blog. Here are the links of videos.
Recently I thought of creating some paper folding steps for making some math stuff. Then again I used my mobile for recording the steps in the form of a video.
The blue tooth facility of a mobile is amazing. The data can be transferred to another blue tooth enabled machine in a fraction of seconds.
In the end I must say creativity has no ending, one must strive for exploring new techniques and do something different for making learning a memorable journey for students.
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