I think good use of digital technology in math and science includes tools that make thinking visible and allow teachers to respond to learners and provide feedback before errors become misconceptions. For this reason, I think all student-response systems like plickers or socrative are a good place to begin. As a primary school teacher, my focus has been on helping teachers to help students develop learning portfolios that demonstrate what students currently know and help them determine what their next steps in learning are. A portfolio shared with the teacher will help the learner make thinking visible to the teacher and allow the teacher to counter misconceptions. Digital portfolios remain a challenge in primary school due to teachers feeling that they are not prepared to support students and do not have just-in-time technical support. The prevailing feeling among teachers at my school is that primary students are not able to access these tools because they are too young to enter passwords and connect to the internet. Our board is working to remove these barriers to access by providing tablet computers that are always connected to the internet. As such, students have only to enter a username and password to access their portfolio and I find they are often able to do this independently by the middle of Grade 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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