PS so, what's the current state of your "TW in education demo" project?
среда, 16 июля 2014 г., 14:26:27 UTC+4 пользователь Yakov написал: > > Hi Richard, > > you are right, *for already existing content*, a converter is needed to > quickly build TWs (or lots of manual work).. I'm glad to hear that you have > much progress with that, although I haven't checked that out yet. Though, > may be a more interesting strategy to build some inspiring example is to > create your own content in TW. > > Now, let me describe some reasons why I think the tiddler format and TW as > a representation base (or also hypertext itself) are interesting for > education (and educative materials): > > 1. Grabbing; improving; recycling > TiddlyWiki allows quick copy-paste/import. Tiddler format is universal; > although there are couple of cases when mere copying of a tiddler is not > enough: when plugins like MathJax or NestedSliders are used and the tiddler > contains corresponding syntax; and when some tiddlers are linked > to/transcluded into/aggregated (by list or another macro) into the tiddler > [and may be inserted pictures (external files) are also an issue]. Still, > this opens an interesting possibility to instantly grab tiddlers into one's > TW, edit them as (s)he pleases, may be improve somehow and even share their > own tiddlers via an online TiddlyWiki (or TiddlySpace). This can be a part > of an education workflow. But we should keep in mind, this is a bare idea > for now (is it?), so the workflow should be tested and probably some > extensions should be written. > > 2. Personalization: learn what you haven't learned yet > Hypertext's main advantage over the ordinary text is its own behaviour > (or, in a more humble way, being dynamic). This can be used in a number of > ways to improve the learning workflow. However, the cost will be likely > always the same: writing the hypertext materials require more efforts. I'm > not going to discuss multimedia content: this part seems to be quite > obvious (video, interactive "pictures" etc; see [1], though). The first > thing I'd like to highlight here is the "learn what you haven't learned > yet" thing. The idea is simple: once one starts to learn, say, Ajax, they > either know or don't know JavaScript already. This can be a smaller thing: > one can learn formulae of abridged multiplication and use them in > trigonometry (you can think of some more elaborate math theorem which proof > requires knowledge of a statement from another math area). The learning > person can somehow specify what (s)he already knows and then some content > can be omitted. This idea seems to be applicable for math, different tech > disciplines, and looks unlikely to work well with humanitarian sciences or > arts (or at least should be used for much bigger chuncks of knowledge in > the latter case). > > 3. Personalization: choosing a presentation form > Also, different presentations of the same content can be created. For > instance, some people would prefer to read a "lecture" with full theorems > and proofs and long text, while others would prefer to "read in problems" > -- see math problems solving which will make them go further (and > understand deeper). Or, if one wants to read a "summary" of a course > (probably his or her own copy already), (s)he would prefer to omit proofs > (which, being marked correspondingly, can be omitted by applying simple > CSS). I'll be glad to hear other specific ideas in this area. > > 4. Personalization: directions cloud (this topic is too much over-horizon > and also involves some server-side/social web technologies) > Say, I've learned html (or mechanics: equilibrium). What's next? If my > purpose was to create beautiful web pages, then next turn would probably be > CSS. Or may be SVG, if I'd like to create interfaces for different > services. Some "after learning" tiddlers can be created to provide some > advices. I'm not sure, but perhaps the term "course" won't be needed in the > end, there will be shorter topics which one can learn (and importing > tiddlers can work as a small "reward") and some "maps" of what should be > learned for different goals (and also what topics compose the knowledge of > the whole technology, for those who want to study technologies and > disciplines fully, consistently). Some courses/topics can have a set of > "required knowledge", so one will see that for advanced hydrodynamics they > need to know some things about equations with partial derivatives. > > 5. Tiddlers for teachers > TiddlyWiki/TiddlySpace/TiddlyWeb can be used on only by those who learn, > but also by those who teach. Sharing materails as tiddlers can be useful > for sharing problems, topics and other teaching materials. One special form > that I would like to mention is "projects" (for students). It is practiced > in several schools in Moscow as well as in different summer schools. The > main idea is simple: the student does some research (not necessarily about > something undiscovered and actual/important) or does some "engineering" > task or some other by himself but tutored by someone. For instance, this > summer I tutored 4 groups of students from 1-5th school forms who built > bridges using da Vinci idea (2 groups, 2 bridges), modeled parachutes and > explored which models drop slower, and created a "wire phone" using > fishing-lines and plastic glasses (and explored which materials work > better); while our biology teachers tutored small researches of ants > behaviour, age-width-height correlations for trees and many others. Sharing > these things (description, methodology notes) will be cool and, as I've > already described several of those in my TW, I'm thinking about a platform > for sharing; may be I'll make a seminar for teachers in my school about TW > this autumn (there are already several interested ones, but we'll see). > > [1] > http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~psoares/MathSVG.html#Examples%20AnimatedNephroid%20AnimatedPendulum%20ConfidenceIntervals%20DefinitionOfSine%20Derivatives%20DrawingAnEllipse%20Dynamic%20EphemeralHandDrawing%20Kepler%20Lissajous%20LostInPrediction%20ManualAnimation%20MoreDerivatives%20NegativeBinomial%20NormalDistribution%20PolarPlots > > Best regards, > Yakov. > > PS once again, all these cool possibilities require additional efforts, so > of'course the degree of implementation totally depends on enthusiasm; and > also, I'll be glad to hear other ideas related to the described topics. (M > åns?) > > воскресенье, 22 июня 2014 г., 9:01:15 UTC+4 пользователь Richard Smith > написал: >> >> >> >> Hi Yakov, >> >> Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> I have in mind to begin by writing math books because they have a very >> logical structure. >> >> To begin with I was playing around with writing my own content and also >> making video - which in itself could be an important component of an >> intelligent textbook. >> >> Recently I came to the conclusion that if I wanted to actually make >> something happen that other people would see the value in then I should try >> to show some sort of "minimum viable product" - ie; an actual textbook that >> you could, in theory, use to teach an actual class. To this end, I decided >> to take a currently available textbook from the organisation c-k12 and >> "tiddlywikify" it. >> >> The original is here: >> http://www.ck12.org/book/CK-12-Middle-School-Math-Grade-7/ >> >> And this (should?) link to my work in progress. >> >> >> https://6c5416d85b78243586803bdbb4771b5d2d699363.googledrive.com/host/0B8H35yJ22OmzOEo2dHJsR2dFblk/Yellow7.html >> >> This is at the level of first-year high-school. >> >> Of course, I am also interested in teaching all levels of the curriculum, >> so if you would like to help, you could start literally anywhere. It would >> be nice in any case to have people to bounce ideas around with and I would >> appreciate any feedback you might have on what I'm doing. >> >> I am in the middle of researching the links that Jeremy provided >> (thankyou Jeremy). >> >> When my prototype is finished I plan to solicit feedback from the online >> teaching community (edu-bloggers etc.) as to whether this seems to them >> like a valuable project and hopefully begin to attract contributors. >> >> My prototype is currently built with each tiddler pointing to a google >> doc on my drive. I can download all of those docs as local html and I am >> hoping there is a way to turn them all into tiddlers on the local machine >> and then wrap them back up into an all-in-one tiddlywiki. >> >> As I say, any and all help gratefully appreciated. Please feel free to >> email me your thoughts. >> >> With thanks, >> Richard >> >> >> >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
