On Mar 13, 6:44 pm, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyone familiar with Jerry Uhl's "Calculus & Mathematica" method of
> teaching???
>
> "Why (and how) I teach without long lectures"http://cm.math.uiuc.edu/where
>
> I like many of his ideas. It seems something similar could obviously
> be done with Sage.
There are all sorts of people trying ideas like this, and really I
suppose you could do it without technology at all; the resistance to
forcing students to really grapple with it ahead of time (which
demands much more up front) might be very difficult, of course. Some
places already do teach largely with a lab method; see also
http://www.math.duke.edu/education/calculustext/, which is being tried
out at Hood College in what is more of a lab environment and
relatively little lecture (but still regular class sessions).
Sage wouldn't be any better or worse in that regard, though TinyMCE
helps; however, some of the Sage/Moodle or other system integration
ideas would make it much easier. Sometime in the not-to-distant
future one should be able to have Sage embedded in a system which
enables chat, virtual chalkboard, comments on HW, automatic grading of
routine exercises, etc. - sort of Sage notebook+WeBWorK+Moodle+more.
So, as they say, implement it and send in a patch :) Just kidding.
But if you try this in an experimental section, let us know, and
definitely help brainstorm what notebook functionality might be useful
in attempting such a venture.
- kcrisman
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