Area Teachers Create Youtube Videos, Making Math Fun

Columbus, Miss. (WCBI)- The chalk board and dry erase boards are a thing of the past. Today’s teachers are using Youtube.

Area math teachers are at Mississippi University for Women, learning how to incorporate video in the classroom.

As part of the University’s Summer Institute Program, teachers are learning how to use technology to meet the goals of the new Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards for math, and their results are going up on you tube.

Instructors and teachers say technology is changing the way kids learn, so you have to adapt in the classroom.

“If we don’t incorporate the technology and make it engaging the students will find ways to bring in the technology and use it in their own ways,” said 5th grade math teacher, Cheryl Doss.

20 teachers from the school districts of Columbus Municipal, West Point, Noxubee, Lowndes, and Kemper Counties attended the 4 week program.

“We have a lot of students today walking around with their digital devices on their wrists, fingertips or in their pockets,” MUW’s Instructional Technologist, Rick Frazier, explained.  “I think if we can reach them through those ways it may make studying more fun.”

The program is funded by the Department of Education and Institutions for Higher Learning.

 

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