User talk:MathTeacherTony

My goal is to provide learning opportunities to my high-school students, and to anyone else interested in Mathematics. I'm a true believer in the value of online instruction, but I know there's a "disconnect" between the information that's available to students and their own decision to use this information to their advantage. I say this from direct experience with my own students at McKinley Tech High School in Washington, D.C.

The trick, I guess, is to understand how to motivate more students to use online-instruction opportunities.

To encapsulate this dilemma with two catch phrases: Teaching students with online instruction is more a case of "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink" than it is "If you build it, they will come."

I'm teaching Algebra II for summer school and I plan to put this dilemma to the test. I also plan to make my classes a lab for on-line instruction. At a minimum, I plan to capture as much of the in-class instruction as useful video content to post for later review. Would it be more valuable as streaming video? I'm not so sure.

Stay tuned. ..