Comments 4 Teachers Weeks 13 and 14

I was assigned Paul McMahon for my Comments for Teachers, Weeks 13-14. McMahon is an employee for Mathletics. He mentions in his blog that mathmatic teachers use technology quite a bit and can find online support easily. How math teachers can enhance classroom experiences and engage students with technology. He talks about challenging students on appropriate levels and enjoying when students have "aha" moments when something just clicks.

In a 2009 blog entry, Mr. McMahon gives several Internet sites for getting students involved and engaged. Where to set up a class blog, www.blogger.com, this is a site I would use for my current students. I did like the www.wordle.net site where he suggests creating Christmas word clouds. Wordle is an interesting way to create a cluster of words for any given subject.

In an August 4, 2009 entry, Paul McMahon talks about his technological journey to support 21st Century Learning in Hong Kong. He says it was "immensely rewarding but often frustrating". It must have been very exciting for him to have a career where he could share his excitement and bring something new and fresh to a region that was "predominantly textbook and examination driven".