Recommendation 5
Use Technology for Developing Conceptual Understanding and Analysis Data.
Statistics 6070
Ryan Shannon
Reccomendation 5- Using Projects in an Elementary Statistics Course for Non-Science Majors
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A website is a great way to have students to be introduced to technology in the classroom. A website can help to strengthen their conceptual understanding and analysis data. A website connects the students far more so than the classroom. Statistics grows applications are available online that are free that can be linked to the class page for students. A message broad, and a virtual chat room both extend the availability of professor, student interaction, and cooperative learning. A website will provide connections to statistics application on the web that can fill a gap made in learning from a simple lecture setting classroom.
Being a student, I would find an online course and interactive chat room with my teacher very useful. In the virtual office hour that noted in section 7.2 for education majors is a great idea. At the high school level this might be very difficult to pull off but since more and more of life is turning to technology, this idea is one worth trying. Technology in the classroom is a great way to bring interaction to students and a modern way too. A message board is the perfect place for student to feel free to look at questions and as noted in the end of 7.3 this is a way for teachers to avoid answering the same questions multiple times, or have students see other student’s questions and answers. Here cooperative learning is able to happen with teacher supervision. This website will bring statistics technology to students at there house, more often.
I think the greatest part of a classroom website is that all students are able to feel comfortable here. There is a security shield that comes from being behind a computer screen that will make a better learning environment. A chat room and a message board can allow students to see what other student are display their answers. Here conceptual learning will flourish as the students explore statistics together. When material is posted a students can see it immediately be in closer contact to the instructor and each other.
This article gives a gateway of ideas that will make this a very easy task for a professor. Each section briefly states the ways that website will increase student-teacher interaction and too student-student interaction. The sections that also inform the reader of ways to make a site for the classroom. Which sections are more important and how to make sure students actually use the website. A better place for notes, updated homework submission, and office hours. With most websites being free and programs available to instructors, not making a website would be a failure to fully help students learn statistics.