My students need a document camera that will allow them to visualize and see mathematical thinking and problem-solving made visible.
$882 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
How can we make learning more visible? How can students use data and feedback more effectively and make quick changes that accelerate their learning in the moment? My students are eager and excited to learn science. They are brilliant, resilient, and dedicated by nature. Learning science presents unique challenges, yet my students continue to find ways to overcome these obstacles.
Our school is an improving charter school, located in deep East Oakland.
Our school serves a predominantly Hispanic student population with approximately ten percent African American and ninety percent Hispanic/Latino. Students face many challenges inside and outside of school, but many demonstrate resiliency in their everyday lives. Our school strives to create a safe space for all students, regardless of background, income, and educational history. All students complete a college-ready course sequence as college preparation.
My Project
I am requesting an Elmo document camera for my Algebra B class to project during note-taking and problem-solving portions of our class. With the document camera, I hope to demonstrate how to make thinking visible, especially in math. My students and I are constantly engaging in “thinking routines” that help them deepen both their comprehension and their problem-solving skills. The document camera will allow students to more closely follow along during note-taking and see the annotations and markings I am making on my paper as we are tackling a math problem together. Rather than using a projector and a PowerPoint presentation or simply the whiteboard, students will be able to see the actual class worksheet they have in front of them actually projected. The document camera will allow me to recreate the overhead projector experience for my students, which will then allow them to engage in the thinking and note-taking process significantly better.
In addition to using the document camera for making thinking visible, students will also have the opportunity to model their own think-aloud processes for our class to see.
I want my students to practice how to annotate and demonstrate their own problem-solving techniques and skills for other students to see and learn from. Students will use the document camera to display and explain their own work to uncover alternative methods of solving problems in math. This second use of the document camera will not only make thinking visible in math but also promote student ownership of learning.
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