Abstract
The increasing influence of technology in education has made us want to understand how teachers will view its use when teaching Euclidean geometry. Teachers’ technological knowledge, skills; competence and readiness are crucial, in their preparation to integrate technologies in their future classrooms. This paper is part of a larger study that looked into the experiences of student teachers when using a form of online technology, which utilised meaningful interactions to teach and learn high school geometry. The study was conducted with ten mathematics student teachers at a South African university using a mix methods approach using worksheets, interviews, surveys and observations. This case study sought to capture the students’ knowledge of technologies when teaching circle geometry through a careful implementation of Geometric Habits of Mind and an Instructional Design model. The intention of the support programme was that students will reproduce their learning experience, during this study, in their classrooms. According to results the perceptions of technology can be categorised as: Knowing the essentials, A tool in learning geometry and A catalyst to learning geometry. It can be clearly stated that all of students liked the readily available learning tool online.
Highlights
The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) educational summit 2015 theme was: All doors of learning and culture shall be opened. This was adopted from the South African Freedom Charter that was drafted more than 50 years ago
This paper focuses on the following research question flowing from the aforementioned narrative: How do pre-service teachers view the use of Dynamic Online Environments (DOEs) technology based teaching methods to learn Euclidean geometry?
A case study methodology was employed to conduct this study since Thomas (2011) notes that the aim of such a study is to provide an in-depth description of a particular event or scenario
Summary
The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) educational summit 2015 theme was: All doors of learning and culture shall be opened This was adopted from the South African Freedom Charter that was drafted more than 50 years ago. This theme underpinned the integration of ICTs (Information Communication Technologies) into schools, becoming the focus of the summit. There is a rapid acceleration of technological advancement that is continually creating platforms for new thoughts and creative ideas This is giving rise to new benchmarks in industry. All this starts from the learning institutions, where we are able to guide students to train their thoughts and nurture these creative patterns into dynamic ideas. Teacher education institutions throughout the world have adopted educational reforms in response to this changing landscape (Ibrahim, & Callaway, 2018; Leendertz, Blignaut, Nieuwoudt, Els & Ellis, 2013)
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