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Teachers as Digital Designers
As a math educator, technology plays a key role in visualizing abstract concepts, calculating extreme/tedious values, analyzing large sets of values, and providing extra support for students who need additional support in order to be successful. I aim to always utilize technology in my classroom that I feel is as equitable as I can possibly ensure to my students. Every student in the classroom has the right to the same supports that another student may have access to, and I want to further enforce that idea. Every student in the high school is provided with a Chromebook and a charger. If a student were to have lost it or broken it, I have a classroom Chromebook that they are free to use, as well as the media center that they could borrow a loaner laptop from. I also have 32 Ti-84 Plus calculators accessible to my students at all times as well. I personally have my students use:
Desmos - For visualization of functions and data sets. Also, it can be used to find important values from a function (such as the vertex of a quadratic), or from a table of values (Linear Regression correlation coefficient). There are a vast amount of opportunities that Desmos offers the students.
Google Sheets - Visualizing 1 and 2 variable sets of data using the chart feature to create histograms and various types of plots.
Synergy - This is how students track their grades and any missing work they may have. This is also how a student or parent can contact me outside of class time.
TI 84 Plus ce - Many students utilize this tool for quicker calculations, ranging from basic operations (adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing), graphing functions and getting a table of values, as well as calculating multiple 1 and 2 variable statistics such as the three main measures of central tendency, standard deviation, variance, etc...

