week 11 chapter 3

    The three most important Principles to me are practice principal, discovery principal, and multimodal principal .  practice principal is important because it focuses on letting the students practice the task.  This is very important for mathematics, my teaching subject, because the only way to get better is to try different ways to solve problems and see what works best when.  discovery principal is also important because in math is continually building upon itself so math is naturally taking what you already know and looking into it much deeper. Which is what the discovery principal is about, taking prior knowledge and looking into it much deeper to have a better understanding of it. Lastly the multimodal principal , is important manly because its about learning using different signs. Now while this may not necessarily be directly useful for math, but it will help because not all speech is communicated directly though speech.  Having the students learn this way will help them to learn to read other signs of speech.
    There are many ways to create a simulation for a classroom, but one that would be most helpful for my classroom being a mathematics teacher, would to have the students create a business of some sort.  This will help for a math classroom because it would not only have the students handle money, but help them with problem solving skills that is essential for developing mathematic skills, and lastly have them thinking creatively while working together.  The students would have a limited amount of money to start with so they would have to come up with the necessities for there business and how much to buy. Then set prices to make money off the merchandise. Then they would have to create a marketing system to bring customers in to purchase from there business and where there business would be located at to bring in customers.  Essentially trying to create and maintain a business, and possibly working with other groups in the classroom to learn how the fiscal portion of how a business works.
    What I feel are the important principals are practice principal, discovery principal, and multimodal principal. Mainly because they have a major affect on helping in the subject that I want to teach, math.  A simulation that I would try to create would be having the students create a business and have them decided how to conduct their business for it to grow and become successful.

references  

Jonassens, D., Howland, J., Marra, R. M.,Grismond, D. (2008).  Meaningful

           learning with technology. Columbus: Pearson, Merrill Prentice Hall.