Teaching with Technology, in the Presence of Life's Challenges

Grant:

Lecturers' Professional Development Fund (LPDF)

Academic Year:

2013 - 2014 (June 1, 2013 through May 31, 2014)

Funding Requested:

$1,375.00

Project Dates:

Wed, 01/15/2014 - Sat, 01/18/2014

Applicant(s):

glarose

Overview of the Project:

Technology is used extensively in a wide range of manners both in and outside of today's collegiate classroom, with varying degrees of success and varying knowledge of what that success actually is. This grant proposal will allow me to travel to the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore in January, 2014 to organize a paper session titled "Teaching with Technology: Impact, Evaluation and Reflection," and to present a talk titled "Some Thoughts About Teaching in the Presence of Technology and Life" which I was invited to give as one of the recipients of the Mathematical Association of America's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. These will have a direct impact on my professional development, providing both visibility in the mathematical community and a forum for communication about and reflection on the wide variety of uses of technology to enhance student learning.

Final Report Fields

Project Objectives:

The objective of the project was to enable travel to the Joint Mathematics Meetings to organize a paper session titled "Teaching with Technology: Impact, Evaluation and Reflection," and to present a talk titled "Some Thoughts About Teaching in the Presence of Technology and Life" which I was invited to give as one of the recipients of the Mathematical Association of America's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. Indirectly, it was also to allow the networking and resulting professional benefits that arise from attending a conference of this nature.

Project Achievements:

(1) The talk I gave was well-attended, and seemingly well-received. I have had a number of people indicate that they found it useful or inspiring, and a couple ask for a written copy of the talk. (2) The session I ran was very successful. There were more good paper submissions for the session than I was originally given time for, and I therefore ended up running two sessions with a total of 25 presentations. We will be following up with some of the presenters to generate papers for the journal issue for which I am a guest editor and around which the paper session was organized. (3) Attending the meeting also allowed me to work directly with collaborators with whom I have subsequently submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education.

Continuation:

It continues only indirectly. I plan to write up the talk I gave in a form that would be accessible if one didn't hear me present it, and will post that on my web page for any who are interested. The journal issue will appear in 2015, and some of the papers therein will be drawn from the session run at the meetings. We obviously do not yet know the outcome of the NSF grant proposal.

Dissemination:

See above. The comments on continuation in large part illustrate the dissemination that will occur of the project's achievements. Clearly, presenting the talk and organizing the session at the meeting were in some sense dissemination activities as well.

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