Digital Cameras & Digital Imaging in the Classroom
http://futureofmath.misterteacher.com/digitalcameras.html
This article focuses on how teachers can incorporate digital cameras and digital imagery in the math classroom. For those students who feel that math is not "their subject," are most of the time wrong. Its all in how they are taught. Most students don't respond well to lecture and homework alone. Students who are kinaesthetic and visual learners would benefit greatly if they saw the relationship to math and the "real world." That's one of the major complaints that math teachers hear..."when am I ever going to use this in real life!?!" Through the use of digital imaging, they can see and experience real-world math concepts, making learning more interesting and fun. In the perfect school, students would be provided digital cameras and be able to go out and identify angles, shapes, symmetry, or parallel and perpendicular lines in their schoolyard. If cameras are not available, the teacher can project pictures on an overhead and ask the class to identify what they can find in the photos. Another way math teachers can use digital imagery is by inserting images into worksheets. This comes in handy when the teacher is making a worksheet of word problems and they need an image to go along with it. For some teachers, drawing is not one of their talents!
Digital Imagery can be used in any classroom and for any subject. Students can use digital cameras to record a field trip and then later insert those photos into a PowerPoint presentation showing what they learned. It can be used to create a virtual field trip, like we will do for our final project in this class. Students can use digital images to enhance their projects, illustrate concepts, create brochures, or to create graphs. We have already used digital imagery in this class by uploading photos of ourselves so others can see who they are taking this course with. I think digital imagery is a wonderful addition to any classroom.
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this was a fantastic article i had such a hard time looking for an article it was nice to see that there are ways that teachers use this type of resource for students to use in the classroom. i believe that students are having a hard time focusing on lessons.
Math was one area that I had not thought of using the digital cameras for. You gave some really good examples of the types of things that the kids could be out shooting pictures of. I especially like the example of symmetry. Looking for symmetrical forms with balance and talking about shooting the center of the object is a great lesson for the students.
Im definetly one of those people who always says "Math isnt my thing!" So I really thought your article was great. I think that I myself probably would have done a lot better in math if my teachers would have used digital imagery throughout their teaching. I think that digital imagery and math are to great things to put together.
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