"it would be really good to help everyone learn real mathematical thinking and doing"
-walter On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > Exactly right Bill! > > What the learner needs to help them learn comes before all. This will lead > to what kinds of materials hard and soft can support their learning. > > (The context for these two sentences is that we also need to have a real > idea of what it is we'd like to help them learn, and this can range from > "whatever strikes their fancy" to e.g. "it would be really good to help > everyone learn real mathematical thinking and doing".) > > Cheers, > > Alan > > ________________________________ > From: Bill Kerr <[email protected]> > To: Marco Pesenti Gritti <[email protected]> > Cc: iaep <[email protected]>; "Costello, Rob R" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 3:37:01 PM > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Thoughts on Pedagogy and supporting activity creators > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Caroline Meeks >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Yes we need to think about whether these people are using Python, eToys, >> > JavaScript or Flash to convert these worksheets into a Sugarized >> > activity, >> > but we also need to think about how the process of Sugarizing can help >> > them >> > create a more effective learning experience for these students then the >> > original mimeographed exercises. >> >> +1! I think looking beyond technicalities this is a very important >> point. (Yeah, I'll share my thoughts about technicalities too, as soon >> as I managed to get email backlog under control!). > > Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of > Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in > Mathematical Thinking and Learning.) > > Liping Ma > > http://books.google.com.au/books?id=EjkKBotJcyIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Liping+inauthor:Ma#PPP1,M1 > > looks fantastic, I read the contents page, forward and introduction from the > google books URL > > foundational knowledge: one and three quarters divided by a half > > ** Make up a good story to represent that problem ** > > This question needs to be asked first before deciding whether to use flash, > javascript, python, etoys or scratch to represent that story > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
