Kids use latest technology to help one another excel
March 12, 2008
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL There’s a video on YouTube that has generated nearly 1,000 views since it was posted last August. It isn’t the latest impressive basketball dunk or footage of pirates versus ninjas, but rather an instruction on adding fractions using different denominators.
The lesson on lowest common denominators is led by “Billy Billy,” a pseudonym for eighth-grade Lincoln Middle School student Aleya Spielman, whose voice in the video guides her fellow classmates how to solve a particular type of problem.
Author: Melody Hanatani, Daily Press Staff Write, 26th February 2008
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Entry Filed under: ICT, Innovation, Learning, Pedagogy, Social Impact, Trends. Tags: Children, Classrooms, Interaction, Learning, Mathcast, Maths, Pedagogy, Podcast, Schools, Teaching, Trends, YouTube.
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