Re: [IAEP] Etoys or Scratch?

discussion can happen. They also need to learn to check and re-check anything they see in open spaces. Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > Although I cannot recommend a platform, I recommend be

Re: [IAEP] Etoys or Scratch?

eparedness info seriously if it were presented in such way. However, if you are thinking specifically about GAMES about disasters (and humor), I would go with Scratch. Mostly because of the ease of upload and remix, and large user base. Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to mak

Re: [IAEP] What makes examples good for novices? and How do we tell if an example is good for novices?

http://projecteuler.net/ - the best I know. Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Steve Thomas wrote: > So I am taking a P2PU course On How to Teach Web Programmin to Free Range > Learners<http://p2pu.org/en/g

[IAEP] Moebius Noodles Improv, free and open online class: advanced math, birth to five, starts November 1!

d, each question you pose contributes to a free and open (Community Commons) resource, for educating millions of kids (and their parents and teachers) all over the world Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make you

[IAEP] Fwd: [Math 2.0] Launch of the UNESCO OER Platform and the UNESCO/COL OER Policy Guidelines

-- Forwarded message -- From: Caine, Abel Date: Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:36 AM Subject: [Math 2.0] Launch of the UNESCO OER Platform and the UNESCO/COL OER Policy Guidelines To: mathfut...@googlegroups.com [image: Description: En_Fr_temple] ** ** *UNESCO OER LAUNCH* To all mem

Re: [IAEP] [Math 2.0] Re: Join Oleg Gleizer, the author of "Modern math for k-2" October 20th at 9:30pm ET

de three by six, instead of the other way around? Just try to tell a kid you can't take square roots of negative numbers... Kids like new things, and also they like to name things, and (less so) to learn fancy names others made up. That's one reason I am interested in your definition of

Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:58 AM, wrote: > *>On 02/10/2011 09:07 a.m., Maria Droujkova wrote: > >...I have never had to do anything with REASONS for seasons or phases of > the moon, outside of curriculum d

Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

er one over the other. > > PS > Another challenge: why is it colder in the mountains? > > Tony Can you pose this as a contextualized challenge? Where understanding WHY is relevant and important to know? Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math

[IAEP] OLPC computers spotted on a photo from 2015

http://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2015.htm [image: 2015 laptop technology future timeline millenium development goals africa developing world] Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math ___ IAEP -- It'

Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

ding becomes robust. Looking back at my life, I have never had to do anything with REASONS for seasons or phases of the moon, outside of curriculum design. Have you? Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math

Re: [IAEP] Why is Scratch more popular than Etoys?

Scratch looks a bit more sleek (modern?) and is a bit easier to use. I think these bits add up. I think Scratch has easier media tools, but I may be mistaken there - maybe I just don't know how to use Etoys media tools. Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make you

Re: [IAEP] [Math 2.0] Calculize!

who made it? We need to interview them for the Math Future series! Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:20 PM, michel paul wrote: > Check out calculize.com. I discovered it a little while ago. > > To define a fun

Re: [IAEP] multiplication and division as scaling (was Re: [NaturalMath] Looking for Concrete "Fraction Experiences")

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:04 PM, David Corking wrote: > Maria Droujkova wrote: > > I think scaling can correspond both to division and to multiplication. > You can scale up and > > down - also by numbers over and under one if you think more > algebraically. > > Ab

Re: [IAEP] [NaturalMath] Looking for Concrete "Fraction Experiences"

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Maria Droujkova wrote: > I think scaling can correspond both to addition and to multiplication. Correction: to DIVISION and to multiplication. Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own m

Re: [IAEP] [NaturalMath] Looking for Concrete "Fraction Experiences"

I think scaling can correspond both to addition and to multiplication. You can scale up and down - also by numbers over and under one if you think more algebraically. Cheers, Maria Droujkova 1-919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math On Jul 15, 2011, at 9:28 AM, David Corking

Re: [IAEP] [NaturalMath] Re: Looking for Concrete "Fraction Experiences"

d the pre-tax price, then you divide by 1.2 > (3) devise a formula to convert lap times measured in problem (1) into > speeds in miles per hour, or kilometres if you prefer. > > I think we will find numerous other examples in science, engineering > and finance. > Yes, grown-ups divid

Re: [IAEP] Looking for Concrete "Fraction Experiences"

ing about how inefficient it would be to program operations separately for different types of variables. Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math. > , or 2/3. If you divide a circle into sixths, you can easily > see that a third of the circle (two pie

Re: [IAEP] Please review E-Book Enlightenment

books. Screenshots and photos of key steps make guides quick and easy to use. Thank you, James! Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math. On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:05 AM, James Simmons wrote: > I think I have the book "E-Book Enlightenment"

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [learningfromeachother] Qato platform for knowledge sharing; Africa?

our network, which we can both with Qato and the webinar room (as the offer stands through LearnCentral's "Host your own"). This invitation is definitely open to Sugar and IAEP communities! Cheers, Maria Droujkova Make math your own, to make your own math. On Thu, May 12, 2011

Re: [IAEP] another book

sense. I think kids need to discover enough to believe they could, given enough time (200k years?) and support, discover everything. Deciding just when this enlightened state is achieved is very tricky and a part of the virtuosity of teaching. Cynthia, thank you fo

[IAEP] Keith Devlin's open online Q&A on math games: Monday at 8pm ET

Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for LearningJoin Keith Devlin in a question and answer session about his math game projects and the new book. *How to join* - Follow this link at the time of the event: * http://tinyurl.com/math20event

[IAEP] TODAY is the correct day Re: OER Glue online event Wednesday, March 30th at 9:30pm ET

Hello, Sorry about the typo - the correct day is today, March 30th, 9:30pm Eastern US time. Cheers, Maria Droujkova Make math your own, to make your own math. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Maria Droujkova wrote: > Join Joel Duffin and Justin Ball, creators of the OER Glue > pl

[IAEP] OER Glue online event Wednesday, March 30th at 9:30pm ET

Join Joel Duffin and Justin Ball, creators of the OER Glue platform, in discussing the latest in open course design architecture. *How to join* - Follow this link at the time of the event: * http://tinyurl.com/math20event

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] When teaching restrains discovery

a range of ethnicities resembling the diversity of > the population was represented". This does not describe a meaningful population for such a study. There are huge differences, for example, between "home-grown kids" and "institution-grown kids" that can both come from middle-

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] When teaching restrains discovery

oriented. Nurturing cultures and "warrior cultures" (those that isolate babies from parents, for example) produce different effects in child-adult relationships. A kid who's attended a Reggio Emilia preschool for a while will have very different behaviors from a kid who's attended a J

[IAEP] Live Math 2.0 event with Alan Kay: "Important Questions in Education Research, " Saturday 2pm ET

*Important Questions in Education Research* [image: Viewpoints_Research_Institute.png] During the event, we will discuss the list of education research questions Alan Kay considers fundamental, ways questions can be addressed, and reasons why few researchers try. ** Login All Math 2.0 events are

[IAEP] Fwd: CSCL 2011 Conference Announcement & Call for Papers

-- Forwarded message -- From: Gerry Stahl Date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:12 AM Subject: CSCL 2011 Conference Announcement & Call for Papers To: Cc: Gerry Stahl , Naomi Miyake < nmiy...@p.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, Hans Spada , Nancy Law *International Conference of Computer-Supported Coll

[IAEP] Alexandre Borovik's collaborative book, "Shadows of the Truth"

e all indications it will powerfully support families and educators who want to help their kids work on advanced math early. Here is Alexandre's request. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. ~*~*~*~*~* I send this request to eve

[IAEP] Cut the Knot! creator Alexander Bogomolny live Wednesday, May 19, at 9:30pm

MAA) Online. Alexander also worked as the Vice President of Software Development at CompuDoc, NJ and senior software developer at Lake Kinneret Research Laboratory and Ben Gurion University, Israel. His research career started in the early seventies at Moscow Institute of Electronic Control Devices,

Re: [IAEP] Response to Intervention - Is this being used outside the US?

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Maria Droujkova wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:48 AM, wrote: >> >>> >>> The strongest argument against is that any easily administered test

Re: [IAEP] Response to Intervention - Is this being used outside the US?

which we currently observe in a purely qualitative, case-study manner. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Math on Web

ing up for crowdsourcing. If you know some folks at Sugarlabs, we definitely would like to talk to them. In particular, we'd love to show them our upcoming iPhone App. Troy CEO Nibipedia 612 747 2730 --- I am CCing Troy and Terry, as well. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com

Re: [IAEP] (fwd) Open Source Schools Think Tank [March, in the UK]

s and other community members responsible for, or habitually responding to, communications from the outside Keywords or tags describing the project's relationships with math. Maybe a few active people can respond to this email. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math yo

[IAEP] Come to the Math 2.0 community event tonight, Wednesday March 3rd, at 9:30 ET

eady going? How can we help one another make our presentations better? - Plan Math 2.0 conferences. Questions: What are good venues for online conferences? What about face-to-face? Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to

Re: [IAEP] Math on Web

Gerald, Check out Nibipedia for that sort of software. The creators may be open for collaboration. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Gerald Ardito wrote: > Caroline, > > Something else th

Re: [IAEP] [etoys-dev] TED - Alan Kay - Example(8:44)

to the point that symbolism is not the same as algebra. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Webinar tonight, February 17th: Math game design framework

s · *Depth gradient:* expert to superficial knowledge; deep learning to expository learning · *Goal gradient:* sandbox play to clear goals; conceptual learning to procedural fluency Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make you

Re: [IAEP] Math 2.0 today: Caroline Meeks presents Sugar on a Stick

://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/Sugar+on+a+Stick Caroline put the event page together on the Math 2.0 wiki (properly) and I copied parts of it into the message (with an important part missing). Sorry about this. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. On Wed

[IAEP] Math 2.0 today: Caroline Meeks presents Sugar on a Stick

g added each month: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/people+and+networks Some examples: an unconference in April being organized by CLIME; helping GeoGebra conference in North America; NextVista math video collection. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your ow

Re: [IAEP] inquiry on constructionism advantages

close. Reference: Boaler, J. (2002). Experiencing School Mathematics: Traditional and Reform Approaches To Teaching and Their Impact on Student Learning, Revised and Expanded Edition (Rev Enl.). Lawrence Erlbaum. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own

Re: [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

Caroline, I am copying this to Peter Levy, the Curriki person you need for the purpose of setting up partnerships. He's been very helpful in answering my Curriki questions. Peter, This is a neat project. Beautiful things may happen when you connect. Cheers, Maria Droujkova

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:23 AM, K. K. Subramaniam wrote: > On Friday 04 Sep 2009 10:12:36 pm Maria Droujkova wrote: > > Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command. > Maria, > > Could you be more specific please? hardest to understand through Scrat

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Bill Kerr wrote: > Image attached > Forty shapes to make in Scratch <http://scratc

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

ource mindset. Tools for dealing with massive amounts of information support the possibility of switching norms (realities) easier and faster, without information overloads. -- we need to be super tough about what we provisionally accept as explanations for anything I have doubts abo

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

are so successful.) > People who grow up with assumed social pluralism won't be as shocked, though. Science principles match the new social order of the "massively multiplayer" community scene pretty well. Cheers, Maria Droujkova Make math your own, to make your own math. htt

Re: [IAEP] Reality is a crutch (was Re: Physics - Lesson plans ideas?)

n mentions allowed people to see them as models of something in physical reality. Same goes for quaternions and many exotic geometries. Relationships with reality is one of the main distinctions between most mathematical and most scientific frameworks and methodologies, which is a huge topic. Che

Re: [IAEP] GPA Notes 7/23/09

can't use 3-folds with paper at the start, so there is the added fun complexity here. In physical space, I use coffee filters for this work. Cheers, Maria Droujkova Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://groups.google.com/group/natur

[IAEP] Sugar people at the "Where is Math 2.0?" event Wednesday

t Wednesday, but are interested in being a part of the discussion, please let me know. We will talk tomorrow about good ways to aggregate the discussions about the topic going on everywhere. Probably a wiki and a series of blog and Twitter tags should do it. Cheers, Maria Droujkova Make math your o

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:11 PM, David Farning wrote: > Thanks for tying in these projects. Could you share more about how > Sugar activity developers and content creators can leverage your work > to solve the problems you discuss earlier in the thread. > > david David, As I said, I am a beginne

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:08 PM, David Farning wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Maria Droujkova > wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Alan Kay wrote: > >> > >> In theory, teachers are supposed to be a critical pool of significant > >> adult

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

art of the general lack of math in juvenile cultures, including social web sites. MariaD > > > -- > *From:* Maria Droujkova > *To:* Alan Kay > *Cc:* K. K. Subramaniam ; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 1, 2009 8:18:34 AM > > *Subj

Re: [IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

decides to make kites together. Adults provide books and supplies, kids work on patterns and sketch and photograph their ideas. It takes listening and coordinating; their peacekeepers of the day resolve conflicts. Kites change from day to day, becoming increasingly complex. Cheers,

Re: [IAEP] Some Comments on Digital Textbooks In California

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > Here is question of some importance: Almost all education systems in > the world were put in place by Imperial powers, whether at home or in > their colonies, with the aim of keeping the population in order and > providing soldiers, gover

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: An interesting project I stumbled across

Caroline, "What can a volunteer do" is a good general question. I have been lurking on this list for a while, and I am still looking for some SHORT tasks (1 hour or so) someone completely new could do. The problem with most tasks is hours of preparation they seem to require before they even start

Re: [IAEP] personalisation and collaboration

David, For frameworks, you may want to look at "achievement systems" and "reputation systems" (e.g. karma on slashdot). I just helped a colleague with his grant proposal about adding achievement systems to a peer review-based authoring environment, Expertiza, so we did some literature review for t

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

Thank you so much for compiling this list. It's most instructive. The topic made me think about language development and its deep connections with cognitive development. A kid adopted at the age of 8-10 can forget his native language, but brain activity in languages learned after the age of seven o

Re: [IAEP] Some Comments on Digital Textbooks In California

I would like to make two points about "the textbook initiative." 1. It's not about text anymore. Educators need to shift to a variety of media. 2. It's not about books anymore. "Book" is the metaphor for a huge producer-consumer divide and broadcast models of learning. The efficiency of broadcast

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-06-01

Your links is daunting to the beginner, too. How do I get there? On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:19 PM, wrote: > Walter wrote > > In Sugar, we bundle an IRC Activity that defaults to #sugar. > > * Is there more we can do to encourage participation? > > IRC can be a bit daunting for the beginner, both t

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Flophouse

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:17 PM, David Farning wrote: > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: >> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 8:43 AM, David Farning wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> Is anyone interested in setting up a Sugar Labs Flophouse next summer? >>> I have been impresses with the qua

Re: [IAEP] versus, not

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Maria Droujkova writes: > >> I think it may be useful to distinguish tracks, and destinations to >> which they lead. The real deal destinations are to make mathematics: >> coin definitions and refine them, pose pr

Re: [IAEP] versus, not

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Alan Kay wrote: > If the real deals are chosen, then the interesting question is what kinds > of processes will work for what kinds of learners? If it is some non-trivial > percentage of direct instruction, then this is what should be done (and > depending on the l

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

rade math project out of RIT? > > Thanks! > Caroline > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Maria Droujkova > wrote: >> >> My company has developed some software prototypes for early algebra >> that could work for 4-6 year olds. I would be interested in adopti

Re: [IAEP] educational brew

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > To benefit from a given lesson, one must master any prerequisites. The good news is that as time goes on, people (slowly) develop ways to help kids acquire prerequisites within learning new topics. For example, you can build lessons about

Re: [IAEP] educational brew

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Bill Kerr wrote: > The other thing I should have said about rob's post but didn't was that I > pretty much agree with all of it as a description of the reality we face, > ie. my experiences of being an innovative teacher are similar enough to what > rob describes a

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-05-03

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > ===Sugar Digest=== > > I encourage you to join two threads on the Education List this week: > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-April/005382.html, which > has boiled down to an instruction vs construction debate; and > http://lists.

Re: [IAEP] Logic simulator

It's a very neat thing. From my point of view, its pedagogical value would very much increase if you could save and share your diagrams. So that one student could build something and give it to others to improve, etc. Or make some classic diagrams, etc. On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary C Marti

Re: [IAEP] Sugar is an X that happens to have an entire learning platform and operating system included.

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > But it also makes sense to think about the easy to grasp benefits. I think > one important criteria is it needs to be something that a group of people > already knows they want. Anyone want to brainstorm with me? For Sugar on a > Stick I

Re: [IAEP] maths instruction

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Kathy Pusztavari wrote: > > I will not teach in the public sector.  I will, however, volunteer or create > a afterschool or summer school program.  I'd love to use sugar (SoaS) to > test some of the activities and do some research.  We need more educational > resea

Re: [IAEP] maths instruction

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Kathy Pusztavari wrote: > Bloom's Taxonomy reminds me of committees that never get anything done in > the Life of Brian. > > Direct Instruction reminds me of the people that get in there and get the > job done. Here is how I see these issues. Bloom's Taxonomy is

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

My company has developed some software prototypes for early algebra that could work for 4-6 year olds. I would be interested in adopting these ideas for OLPC, but I'd need some collaborators for that. On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Christop

Re: [IAEP] maths instruction

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Kathy Pusztavari wrote: > I'm of the direct instruction camp. If skills and concepts are not build > upon each other correctly, you will get kids that either learn a concept > wrong (then they have to unlearn it) or fail and then feel like they are > stupid. Hav

Re: [IAEP] 70 minute interview with Bryan Berry on XO deployment in Nepal

> 10) Open Source software critical to high quality education – education has > to be very customised, to the kids, the teacher, the environment and the > country – not something you can design in New York city and will fit another > country > > Liping Ma argues (admittedly from small sample sizes)