Hi, Rob Beezer escribió:
[...] > In 1992 I taught integral calculus to a small group of first-term > freshman using the Calculus & Mathematica materials. We met one day a > week in a classroom and then three days a week in a lab setting. I > had an undergraduate TA to help with lab sessions. I chose to do a > lot of grading of the electronically submitted worksheets. Here's > another +1 for TinyMCE - the ability to insert legible comments in > student work to be returned to the students. > > [...] > The course was an experiment and in a small department we didn't have > the luxury of continuing to run it in parallel with our regular > courses, and there wasn't sufficient enthusiasm to cutover to this > style en masse. > > [...] Talking about small experiments with digital technology and mathematical education and the possibility of continuity, there is an article about how can be the educative system changed in a larger scale: Models of growth — towards fundamental change in learning environments: http://www.media.mit.edu/publications/bttj/Paper11Pages96-112.pdf In some part of the article Cavallo and his coworkers ask them selves about the contexts for changes and how that positive changes can be spread. There is also the segregation model of Thomas Schelling. One of the most important things is that small local behavior can create global behavior. This is stated as microchanges create macro behavior. For me this statement has a "hope corollary": To change the world you don't need to change it all, just change something/someone that changes something/someone, keep that way, and iterate. That ideas make thing about how this small experiments that we're making with Sage on mathematical education can be keep local and contextual and still create something in a broader scale. For me the key is thinking small but connected (moodle + Sage is "too big" for me). So one experiment in that line of action is to use microblogs (twitter alike) to make students publish "solved exercises powered by Sage" and talk about them. This is the place where is happening (in Spanish and may be the server is down :-/ ): http://uvikuo.presentlyapp.com/ The idea is to use tag clouds and feedback to give more coherence and structure to the system (may be next semester) but now that I'm trying to catch up the community after long silence, posting this in this thread, even if is a experience in early stages, seems fine. Cheers, Offray --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
