I have read the following articles, Leveling the Digital Playing Field, Challenges in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Elementary Settings with Math Instruction using Learning Technology, and Teaching Mathematics to Secondary Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: Challenges and Practical Suggestions for Teachers.
Even though, I read the articles a couple weeks ago and took notes, I had forgotten the main points and reread most of them. The articles explored teaching practices to use with students lacking fundamental math skills. To make problem solving skills more accessible for special needs students, the articles promote hands-on activities and technology to reinforce retention and engagement for math students. I found the third article to be more relevant and practical to apply because it focused on the same population of students that I currently teach. The implementation of technology with math are the common themes throughout these articles, along with the challenges of teaching students with disabilities or disadvantages. These articles offered multiple perspectives but mainly from a teacher’s and what the district’s policies puts on math instruction. In many ways my driving question was address which is: What effect will a digital math classroom have on student engagement? I am still interested in researching articles that will tie in digital math instruction on student engagement or add something new to the field of special education knowledge.
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Marisabel Olguin
11/24/2017 11:43:04 am
You mention the article promotes hands-on activities and technology to reinforce retention and engagement for math students, did they give any examples? I am curious because all students could benefit from those strategies. I would like to know if they have any new tech savvy ways to engage all students in math?
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Maria Dowling
11/26/2017 05:13:38 pm
It looks like you've done a good job looking for and finding articles that relate to your driving question. I am interested in the article you mentioned,Challenges in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Elementary Settings with Math Instruction using Learning Technology. Math can be a subject that students either love or hate. Usually when they say they hate mat. it's because they have a difficult time making sense of the concepts that are taught. As an elementary school educator I have students with special needs and challenges that would benefit from some of the strategies mentioned in the article. Thank you for sharing.
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Jose G. Cerda
12/4/2017 10:32:35 pm
Finding articles specific to our studies has definitely taken time and lots of reading, but I see you have found some good sources related to your study. I can imagine working with students with emotional and behavioral disorders requires a lot from you, I look forward to hear what you reflect on after your study.
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