06th October, 2022
Mumbai

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” – John Dewey

Teaching in today's time can't be in the traditional way where the entire teaching and learning process revolves around blackboard and teacher where the students are passive learners. Subjects like Math can't just be taught in space as not every child is a Math geek and they can understand all the complex concepts in math. So for that reason the teacher's should use certain dynamic software like GeoGebra where the students can explore and ' learn by doing with fun'.

On 06th October 2022, from 9.00 am to 10.30 am a workshop on 'GeoGebra-A Math tool’ was conducted in the computer lab of St.Teresa’s Institute of Education. There were 47 participants for this workshop. It was organized by Dr. Cinderella D'mello. The resource person for this session was Mr. Mandar Bhanushe. Assistant Professor-cum- Asst. Director, Mathematics. IDOL University, Mumbai. The session started by the introduction of the resource person done by Dr.Cinderella D'mello , she even mentioned how useful it is for all the facilitators irrespective of their methods to know about such fabulous software because no new knowledge gained is a waste it might come handy at any given time. The workshop was conducted in the computer lab where all the participants got to have hands -on experience with the software. Sir taught various kinds of features of the software like drawing a line using a particular function, intersection of 2 lines, the coordinates of a particular point, angles of a triangle, drawing a polygon. Sir even demonstrated how dynamic this software is by using animation features through the slider option present where just by dragging the slider the no. of vertices increased and eventually the sides of polygon increased there came a time when the number of vertices was quite large the polygon turned to a circle. The animation was quite fascinating to watch. Just like we facilitators enjoyed this animation, even the students will love this kind of animation and learning will become fun and interesting for them. Sir explained about 'Applet' where we can create our own animation application and share it across the globe where anyone can access it on the GeoGebra interface.

After that each participant present over there tried to explore the software on their own, they tried to clear their queries with Mr. Mandar Bhanushe. The session ended with a vote of thanks proposed by Ms. Piyadath Dantis.

“Technology will never replace great teachers, but in the hands of great teachers, it’s transformational.” – George Couros