First Flip-Book
Students submitted the first flip book of the year today. I have included a link to the assignment here. I was very pleased with student responses and work on this assignment. They chose good problems for their examples; and their comments and reflections were thoughtful and instightful. I am requiring these students to go above and beyond what all other pre-calculus students are required to do. As educators in the 21st century, it is our duty to reach learners with 21st century technology. How can we ask young people who are steeped in web 2.0 technology and mobile technology to learn just from books and lectures. This course may include the use of cell phones as a tool for learning but it goes beyond that with the inclusion of wikis and blogs that force the students to summarize, reflect, and comment on what they are learning. Each one of my students are seeking to do their best with these activities and I am proud of them.
The following is an example of student work from the flip book assignment along with the authors reflection. I chose this one because it does fully represent what was required of the learner and is an exemplar.
“During this unit, my knowledge of factoring has improved greatly. I learned new methods of factoring including the Sum/Difference of Two Cubes, and Perfect Square Trinomials. I was able to recognize, when given a problem, which technique to use, after learning these new methods, along with the ones we have already learned. I find that the most challenging aspect of factoring is being able to identify which method should be used for each problem, and after covering this unit in class, I find it easier to tell.”
