Write a paragraph about each site answering the following questions: Who was their audience? Were they effective in presenting to them on every page? Why or why not?
Cerda The audience for Cerda was focused towards teachers and how they can use something like students created video tutorials in order to engage his students in learning. I feel like he was effective in presenting on each page I looked at. Large blocks of text was broken up with images to represent that text and made it much more appealing to the eye which really works to invite people in to exploring the website. Garcia This website was also geared towards educators. It looked at how using robotics in a math classroom can effect engagement and attendance. I really felt drawn into this website more that the first because of the number of pictures she chose to include in her website. It really gave way to triggering my curiosity and made me much more willing to sit down and read through what she completed. Having explored several capstone websites, write a blog about who you think the audience of your capstone is going to be and why. My audience will be educators, and specifically, math educators of all levels. There are still many math teachers who refuse to learn new methods of teaching or use more inquiry-based tasks in their classroom. The words I most often hear are "well it worked for me." It didn't work for me when I went through school. While math was generally easy for me, it was only easy because I would come up with my own way of solving it, then figured out how to fake solving it the way it was expected. Children's minds do not work the same and the majority of math teachers tend to have very linear ideas about what is appropriate or best practice when it comes to math because they excelled in a system that catered to their learning styles and methods. I want to show teachers there is another way that can produce greater engagement and greater jumps in learning. I want more educators to be open to trying out new things, even if it's out of their comfort zone. There will always be those students who thrive in a traditional direct instruction method of teaching, but if that's all they teach, they are leaving out a large number of students and in the end, adding to our collective poor mindsets around mathematics.
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