The technology I haven chosen to support my "Wicked Problem" Project includes students using their own laptop computer provided by the school, the internet, searching through a webquest and looking at online interactives supporting the slope-intercept form. These technology tools will further guide and help students understand the slope-intercept form. With the technology students will be able to learn at their own pace and will be able to go back and look at ideas again if they don't understand what is shown the first time with the webquest or concepts taught by the teacher. The technology sources will help meet all the different types of learning needs in the classroom. The online activities that I will have students do, involves them visually looking and reading about the slope-intercept form, listening and interacting with the computer and responding to show what they are understanding.
The content students have to know and understand about slope-intercept form includes...
A.PA.07.06 - Students will calculate the slope from the graph of a linear function as the ratio of rise/run for a pair of points on the graph, and express the answer as a fraction and a decimal; understand that linear functions have slope that is a constant rate of change.
A.PA.07.07 - Students need to represent linear functions in the form y = x + b, y = mx, and y = mx + b and graph, interpreting slope and y-intercept.
A.FO.07.08 - Students will find and interpret the x and/or y intercept of a linear equation or function. Know that the solution to a linear equation of the form ax+b=0 corresponds to the point at which the graph of y=ax+b crosses the x axis.
The webquest students will be looking at introduces linear equations (slope-intercept form) and has examples and questions that go along with the examples for students to answer based on the content students need to know. Students will be shown many different examples and representations of slope-intercept form from the webquest as well as the online interactive they will be doing after the webquest.
This information is easily accessible to student when they come to class prepared with their computers. Every classroom is highly equipped with wireless internet access and extention cords if students come to class with their computer not charged. When students come to class they will need to access the internet and pull up the webquest with the links that the teacher provides for them.
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