FRIT 7234

After students are presented with intriguing questions/scenarios, they make connections with previous learned material and future learning goals.  Curiosity gets the best of them.  They think about it, own it and make it fun.  They have a foundation to build on and discover new material. My mini-lessons will be from a unit in Advanced Mathematical Decision Making (AMDM).  I have been teaching this class to seniors for three years.  I like how the activities bring the real-world into the classroom. Students will be working on a project that has to do with observational and experimental studies.  They will conduct polls/experiments.  Students can use the phones to record answers.  Using the data collected, students will use be given website to graph and display data.  Once they see the results of the data, it will bring it into context.  One of the lessons will be about using statistics and giving credit from where they received t...

My goals were to learn how to use twitter and incorporate in my lessons.  The second goal was to become fluent in blogging and tweeting. I know how to blog and tweet now.  I am not as fluent with twitter as I want to be.  The blogging was easier than the tweeting. I am more familiar with what this course is about.  My goals have changed in not just knowing how to use them, but to understand them and the power they can have.  I want to add PLN  with the blogging and tweeting because it has become a major part of our course and will be helpful in the future. When Carol Dweck ( Mindset Interview ) said that fixed minds are thinking "Am I going to look smart? Am I not going to look smart?" This is me sometimes.  In these online courses, I worry what my classmates will think.  (Everyone that I have contacted and worked with has been very helpful and kind.)   However, I also think I have a growth mindset.  Since I am not digitally...