Week 6 - Task 5

Week 6 - Task 5- Images and Diagrams, KIDS ZONE.

21st century education has allowed ICT to form new creative educational strategies, ICT allows students to put forth there opinion and knowledge, and gain knowledge form others. Technology caters for a wide range of students and their needs, they are able to explore information and materials at their own pace and doing so in where they feel conformable, such as at home. Images and Diagrams can be designed into activities that can incorporate diverse ways of thinking into the classroom environment, they engage students in their learning and helps develop students higher order thinking. Image and diagrams can be used in successful ways, in all areas of education to engage students. Focussing on math, images and diagrams are use often to help students understand the content, in forms of graphs such as bar graphs and pie graphs. When students are able to see measurements and scale of what is going on or being asked provides students with more understanding. When students are asked to draw their own, they gain better understanding and develops higher order think, before they draw a diagram they first have to know what is going on or know how to find the answer. In the content of math, images and diagrams are often drawn up by a teacher or student to suit their current content, and often these are drawn by hand, but as technology advances there are many digital gadgets that allow you to create them on computers, for example PowerPoint, Word, and Excel allows you to create graphs, change the names, the measurements and colours. 

Online resources such as KIDS ZONE 'create a graph' also allows students to create their own bar graph, line graph, area graph, pie graph and XY graph, this technology allows students to  choose the direction of the graph (horizontal or vertical), the shape (rectangle, cylinder, triangle etc.), the colour (background, grid & grid lines), the appearance from 2D to 3D, they are able to name the graph and each label, change the value, (percentage, total etc..) and students can also choose the font, the colour, size and style than are able to save it. 

Made from KIDS ZONE

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

SAMR Model:

SUBSTITUTION: Students moving from drawing graphs by hand on graph paper to using technology such as PowerPoint.
AUGMENTATION: Students accessing other graphs online and sharing theirs.
MODIFICATION: Students being able to use information and measurements given to them and redesigning the graph, such as changing the graph from a bar graph to a line graph, with teacher feedback.
REDEFINITION: Students being able to access technology such as KIDS ZONE to design and create new graphs, saving and sharing their graphs not just to students within the same classroom but to others online.