By MAYA MCFADDEN | New Haven Independent
Tim Brzezinski welcomes smart phones and TikTok when he’s teaching — both to his New Haven middle-school math classroom and to thousands of people around the globe who follow his videos online.
That’s because Brzezinski, who teaches at Engineering and Science University Magnet School (ESUMS), believes in a teaching method called “active student-centered discovery-based learning.” That means his students learn “graspable math” with the help of educational phone and computer apps.
Brzezinski then shares his own digital explorations in the classroom on social media to help other educators do the same.
He uses social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok to share his knowledge of ed tech with other educators around the world. Brzezinski has 13,800 followers on Twitter. On YouTube, he has 5,000 subscribers. On TikTok, he has 2,000 followers.
As evidenced by this reporter’s visit to Brzezinski’s classroom Monday morning, he uses a variety of apps to engage students daily and help them to creatively learn how to apply mathematics in real-life scenarios.
With more than a decade of teaching experience, and only a few weeks into his first academic year at ESUMS, Brzezinski clearly takes pride in trying to use educational technology, or “ed tech,” to enhance student learning and push the bounds of how to teach math.
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