We featured Florida math teacher Donna Noll here on the Livescribe Education blog a few weeks ago because we love her creative use of technology in her classroom ? and so does US News & World Report! Yesterday they featured a story on Donna and other math teachers using the Livescribe smartpen in their classrooms. Donna has connected with her students on Facebook by creating a class fan page, SemiNoll Math. She then creates pencasts and posts them to on the fan page for her students to reference.
Noll comments on using the smartpen in the article: ?I can explain a problem very quickly, like I?m talking to the student, sitting next to them, and writing down the problem, and it records everything. Then I can post it right on the fan page.?
US News & World Report also spoke with Bill Barnes, coordinator of secondary mathematics for Howard County Public Schools in Maryland, who uses the Livescribe smartpen to have his students ?record their own math homework. Barnes uses the recordings to hear how his students work through different math problems, since there may be more than one way to work through an equation.
This method de-emphasizes memorization and procedure instead helps students dig deeper into mathematical concepts, according to Barnes. He believes this kind of deeper understanding of concepts will be critical for teachers working with the Common Core State Standards. (Check out the?Livescribe Education blog post featuring Jon Wray and his work with the Common Core State Standards.)
?We?re kind of slowing things down and going deeper than just seeing how many worksheets we can finish in class,? Barnes says.
Read the full text of the US News and World report here.
Source: http://www.livescribe.com/blog/education/2012/09/05/magic-pen-improving-math-education/
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