Esther Yang
AI Super TA
My focus of A3 assignment is Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistance. I believe that AI technology can allow educators to fully understand students’ level of understanding and provide instructional and emotional attention that students need in both traditional classrooms and mobile or online learning platforms. Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant I have included a Jamboard in this presentation […]
“Clean with Me” Culture on YouTube
There was a post by LINDA ZHAO on on May 30, 2020 on “Study With Me” Culture on Youtube. I find these studying videos can give viewers a sense of connectedness especially in the current pandemic situation where people cannot gather to study together. I remember that I was better focused and more productive while […]
Can Deepfakes have positive applications?
Have you watched a series of Tik Tok deepfake videos of Tom Cruise gone viral earlier this month? These fake videos generated by artificial intelligence continue to become more convincing and it raises concerns about authenticity of online media contents and the danger with deepfakes. These days, it is hard to trust what we read […]
Mobile Financial Calculators
The new British Columbia K-12 curriculum and graduation program incorporates financial literacy in mathematics and career education, as well as applied design and technology. This year I decided to use a financial calculator mobile App (as opposed to using TI-83 graphing calculators in the past) to teach Foundations of Mathematics 12 students the importance of […]
A1 – Coding in K-12 Education
Hi all, For my A1 assignment, I looked into coding as a learning and teaching tool in K-12 education. Initially, even though I had seen many colleagues in my teaching discipline using coding/robotics in their classes, I was not so enthusiastic about incorporating coding in my teaching practice due to lack of knowledge, confidence and […]
Mobile Technology to Empower Students with Special Needs
Mobile educational technology can serve as a great equalizer for teachers to differentiate instruction and for students with special needs to empower their knowledge and talents. Mobile technology allows students with special need s to participate and express themselves, present information in new ways and be present in the restrictive learning environment with the help […]
Get Instant Math Help from Mobile Math Apps
With the rise of remote or e-learning, sometimes teacher’s immediate help is not always available to students, so these math problem solving Apps can be great alternatives for providing instant help to students. These apps will double check your answers, provide you step by step instructions for problem solution, plot a graph for any function […]
Introduction – Esther Yang
Hello all, My name is Esther Yang and I am a secondary mathematics teacher, working in Burnaby, British Columbia. I completed my bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Education at UBC. ETEC 523 is my fourth course in MET and I am very excited to be part of this course and looking forward to learning with […]