What I learned from class

I think the main idea I learned from this class was that literacy does not only exist in reading/english areas, but it is definitely in mathematics. I learned that literacy is very important in my content area of math: it is in the symbols, math vocabulary, word problems, and application of knowledge into situations. When we constructed our unit plan based on an essential question, we kept the idea of literacy in mind, and picked that topics that displayed a student's literacy in math when they need to use math in everyday life. It was so cool to me that we could construct an entire unit solely based on an essential question. It really seemed like a great way to get the students energized about their upcoming lessons, because these were questions that they actually "wanted" to know the answers to.

Honestly, there wasn't really anything that I didn't "get" that I wanted to learn in this class. Going into this class, I had an idea that it would be boring and not really apply to my content area. However, I was pleasantly surprised, and found all of the classes fun and interesting. Also, the way that the class was taught forced us to seek information from many different mediums; not just from books, and this was really interesting, because I had never used things like online journals or blogs before. Overall, I am very happy with this class.