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  EDMT 208 Mathematics, Technology and Society What mathematics should Filipino students learn? By Edmar Oandasan   Hello and welcome back to my blog. This is my final entry for this season, and I must admit that writing this brings mixed emotions. On one hand, I feel a sense of fulfillment after spending the past months engaging deeply with the connection between mathematics, technology, and society. On the other hand, there is also a sense of sadness, knowing that this journey, along with the challenges and small victories of finishing the requirements that came with it is now coming to an end. As my first experience with formal online learning and my first semester of studying an online degree, this course has been both demanding and rewarding for me. The carefully selected materials and the thoughtful structure designed by our professor made it possible to engage deeply while maintaining a realistic workload. More importantly, it has equipped me with insights a...

EDMT 208 Mathematics, Technology and Society How Technology Shifted Classroom Teaching and Learning By Edmar Oandasan Hello, fellow learner and reader, welcome back to my blog. In this post, I try to express my insights about this interesting question: How has technology changed the way mathematics is taught and learned in classrooms? As you may have noticed, technology has dominated the way we interact as humans globally, regionally, and in our communities at an extremely rapid phase. The impact has not spared the academic world too, changing the way teachers and students interact in schools especially in classroom settings. Technology then has permeated every layer of human educational experience including the way we transfer (as teachers) and acquire knowledge and skills (as learners). After engaging with the assigned readings about the intersection of mathematics and technology and contemporary mathematics, I see this change not simply as the introduction of tools, but as ...