Application 6: Web Site Update
Addressing the Needs
of a
Target Audience through a Web Page:
Math for Everyone
http://www.geocities.com/henely61/Math_for_everyone.html
Rochelle Henely
December 10, 2006
# 6663 T1002
The constraints of the classroom and reaching all students was studied in Exploring New Technologies: The Impact on Society, Work, and Education. Digital equity is defined as the social-justice goal of ensuring that everyone in our society has equal access to technology tools, computers and the Internet (Wallace, 2005). This is very relevant to our students in today’s classroom. We have learned that technologies have always led to changes in the way things are done. Society has always found new technologies to meet the ever-changing needs of the world (Jacobson, 2002). Using these advances to meet the needs of the ESL students is a wonderful opportunity for the teacher and the student. Unfortunately, as the schools strive to service all students in the area of technology, we cannot ensure that all students have the access or the know-how to make use of these skills. This is one of the many obstacles in the face of using any advanced learning tool in the classroom.
Teacher websites are beneficial to many different audiences. It is a great tool for the teacher to “speak” to a larger audience. Whether it is the students, the parents, or the community, a website can showcase many wonderful events and opportunities to the viewer. Many pages have specific goals. In the particular web page that has been created in this application, the viewing audience is any math learner, but especially ESL students. As found this week, there are a number of resources on the web to assist our ESL students in all areas. From translations to basic skill practice to interesting articles , the learner has golden opportunities at their fingertips.
The relationships between math, art, nature, and the logical brain are immense. Math is not just about numbers, through visual interpretation, logic puzzles, and other valuable math resources, I hope to help the learner gain a better appreciation for math. Math is not just about numbers, in class students are expected to do much more than math.. Students are required to reason problems through and use alternate reasoning skills to find solutions. The different puzzles on my webpage will entice the students to think outside the box. Wonderment generates an excitement for learning that will stimulate the beginnings of a life long learner. Through this fun and interesting page I hope to engage the viewer to browse the various sites. The links on the side will be beneficial to the ESL student as well as others. Having the desire to browse through material on a web page is engaging and interactive. By catching the viewers attention with the fun and interesting math aspects, I hope that they will take the time to visit the other links available to them.
References
Jacobson, E. (Director). (2002). Program six: Constraints of the classroom. [Motion picture]. In B. Schadlow (Producer), Exploring new technologies: The impact on society, work, and education. Los Angeles: Laureate Education, Inc.
Wallace, J., 2005. Digital Equity Toolkit, Retrieved December 6, 2006 from http://www.nici-mc2.org/de_toolkit/pages/toolkit.htm