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.
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discussion can happen. They also need to learn to check and
re-check anything they see in open spaces.
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On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.orgwrote:
Although I cannot recommend a platform, I
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
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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
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*UNESCO OER
, and (less so) to learn fancy
names others made up. That's one reason I am interested in your definition
of things and names.
Other than that, the little I have read (the Table of Contents and
Introduction) is excellent.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 23:08, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.comwrote
pose this as a contextualized challenge? Where understanding WHY is
relevant and important to know?
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On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:58 AM, nanon...@mediagala.com 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 design. Have you
http://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2015.htm
[image: 2015 laptop technology future timeline millenium development goals
africa developing world]
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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.
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who made it? We need to interview them for
the Math Future series!
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:20 PM, michel paul pythonic.m...@gmail.comwrote:
Check out calculize.com. I discovered it a little while ago
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.comwrote:
I think scaling can correspond both to addition and to multiplication.
Correction: to DIVISION and to multiplication.
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:04 PM, David Corking li...@dcorking.com 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.
Absolutely. In my
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.
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On Jul 15, 2011, at 9:28 AM, David Corking li
types of variables.
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, or 2/3. If you divide a circle into sixths, you can easily
see that a third of the circle (two pieces) is two-thirds of half the
circle (three pieces), in just the same way that, for example
per hour, or kilometres if you prefer.
I think we will find numerous other examples in science, engineering
and finance.
Yes, grown-ups divide by decimals (as you said, usually using computers) all
the time.
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and easy to use. Thank you, James!
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On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:05 AM, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote:
I think I have the book E-Book Enlightenment in a pretty good place
to think about publishing
. Deciding just when this
enlightened state is achieved is very tricky and a part of the virtuosity of
teaching.
Cynthia, thank you for the book - I am sending information on to my groups!
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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: *
Hello,
Sorry about the typo - the correct day is today, March 30th, 9:30pm Eastern
US time.
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.comwrote:
Join Joel Duffin and Justin Ball, creators of the OER
Join Joel Duffin and Justin Ball, creators of the OER Glue
platformhttp://www.oerglue.com/,
in discussing the latest in open course design architecture.
*How to join*
- Follow this link at the time of the event: *
(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 Japanese test-prep preschool.
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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-class families.
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*Important Questions in Education Research*
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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.
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From: Gerry Stahl ge...@gerrystahl.net
Date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Subject: CSCL 2011 Conference Announcement Call for Papers
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indications it will powerfully support families and educators who want to
help their kids work on advanced math early.
Here is Alexandre's request.
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~*~*~*~*~*
I send this request to every person
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, where he worked on numerical
methods and nonlinear programming.
~*~*~*~*~*
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manner.
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:48 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
The strongest argument against is that any easily administered
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
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I am CCing Troy and Terry, as well.
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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.
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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?
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Gerald,
Check out Nibipedia for that sort of software. The creators may be open for
collaboration.
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:
Caroline
:* expert to superficial knowledge; deep learning to
expository learning
· *Goal gradient:* sandbox play to clear goals; conceptual learning to
procedural fluency
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://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.
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://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.
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On Wed
.
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.
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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.
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On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:23 AM, K. K. Subramaniam subb...@gmail.com 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 Scratch
Circle is one of the hardest in Scratch. Unless I am missing a command.
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
Image attached
Forty shapes to make in Scratch http
of the massively
multiplayer community scene pretty well.
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http://www.naturalmath.com social math site
http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/ Math 2.0 interest group
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a gradient of toughness, with relaxed
rules for play, brainstorming and learning activities peripheral to
communities, and increasingly tougher rules for more central activities.
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http://www.naturalmath.com social math site
http
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.
Cheers,
Maria
space, I use coffee filters for this work.
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http://www.naturalmath.com social math site
http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath subscribe now to discuss future
math culture with parents, researchers and techies
http
, 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.
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, becoming increasingly complex.
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http://www.phenixsolutions.com
, including social web sites.
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*Cc:* K. K. Subramaniam subb...@gmail.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 1, 2009 8:18:34 AM
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com 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
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
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
Your links is daunting to the beginner, too. How do I get there?
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:19 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au 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
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:17 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 8:43 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
Hey all,
Is anyone interested in setting up a Sugar Labs Flophouse
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com 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
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com 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
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Albert Cahalan acaha...@gmail.com 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
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com 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?
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
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com 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;
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Kathy Pusztavari
ka...@kathyandcalvin.com 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
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 sve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Kathy Pusztavari
ka...@kathyandcalvin.com 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.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Kathy Pusztavari
ka...@kathyandcalvin.com 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
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) that
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