Learning maths with ICT

I will in this tematic blog inform about diagnostic teaching with help from ICT

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Diagnostic teaching
 

What`s that? To describe this, i will  make a list.
1. Identify misunderstandings
2. Crate cognitive conflicts
3. Solve the conflicts with discussion and other experiences
4. Give further experiences with the same problem

In diagnostic teaching ICT can be a good help . The misunderstandings can be disclosed in working with programs, where they can experiment further to explore connections. the benefits to ICT is that the pupils get quick feedback, which make a reinforcement. They dont have to wait for the teacher. The teacher mustn`t give the answer immediate, but he have to provocate to discussion and cognitive work for the pupils. Examples of teaching plan can be:

1. typical misunderstandings is decimal numbers: as teacher you can use Excel. The pupils can get a topic where they have to write next numbers after 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6. Afterwards find a formula. You can develop this with 0.02, 0.04 and so on.

2. In geometry it is common to find misunderstandings. To create cognitive conflicts is Geogebra (program for use in geometry and algebra). You can experiment with figures with moving parts of a triangle, square, circles.......

3. In educationel softwares (such as matemania.no/matematikk.org/matematikk.net) the pupils can
work with challenges and get quick reinforcement - the pupils experience cognitive conflicts and makes them think: "What`s the problem here? What do i wrong?".

 (Fuglestad, Anne Berit Læring med datamaskiner i konstruktivistisk perspektiv. Hentet fra Tangenten nr 2 1999)

This is the opposite of diagnostic teaching!