Educational Pedagogy

I was giving them a project, telling them all my expectations for what to produce, and of course every kid needed to produce the same thing because that made it easier for me to grade. And, I thought it would easily show me what they had learned. In the end I got 30 of the same element, 30 of the same reports and 30 of the same presentations. What I thought was good for my students actually wasn’t. I had given them a recipe and they had followed but were they really able to tell me what they’d learned? Was I letting them be creative in the process, thereby giving them a reason to invest in their learning? Certainly not.

As technology progresses, I am convinced it will continue to get easier and more natural to express math and science content in all our work. For now we still need to be a little bit creative to find tools and tricks to help bridge that gap. For now, one of the quickest and easiest ways I have found to add math and science expressions to a Google Form quiz is to drag and drop images create with the CodeCogs web tool. Hopefully you as well will find this to be a time saver for your work. If you have other suggestions, please share your tips in the comments below.