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[edit] Famous Author Series
During the course of the academic year 2007-08, we are studying the work of Jim Wertsch each month. Please feel free to join the seminar on-line. More details are posted here.
In this section of the Wiki, participants of the seminar can post their thoughts.
Wednesday 12th December 2007 at noon.
Article: Wertsch, J. V. (1990). The voice of rationality in a sociocultural approach to mind. In L. C. Moll (Ed.), Vygotsky and education: Instructional implications and applications of sociohistorical psychology (pp. 111-126). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Wednesday 28th November 2007 at 1:00pm Article: Wertsch, J. V., & Toma, C. (1995). Discourse and learning in the classroom: A sociocultural approach. In L. P. Steff & J. Gale (Eds.), Constructivism in Education (pp. 159-174). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
[edit] Interdisciplinary Colloquium Series
Please feel free to post your reflections of the talks in this series. Streaming videos of the talks can be found on our [1] website. Even if you could not make the talk but have viewed it on-line please feel free to add your thoughts. We are especially interested in contributions from research students.
Academic Year 07-08
Formulating Measures: A Step Toward Understanding Modeling in the K-12 Curriculum Dr Judah Schwartz. Wednesday 7th May 2008
Talent Development and Social Justice: Amicable Agendas or Conflicting Constructs Bharath Sriraman. Wednesday 2nd April 2008
Foundations of Algebra in the Elementary Grades Susan Jo Russell. Wednesday 5th March 2008
Generalizations in the Early Grades: Algebraic Structures for Young Children Dr Barbara Dougherty. Monday 10th December 2007
Perspectives on Dynamic Geometry Nick Jackiw, Friday 16th November 2007
From Symbolic Cognition to Digital Environments - a Long Term Perspective Dr Luis Moreno-Armella, Friday 26th October 2007
[edit] 1st Foundational Issues in Mathematics Education Symposium (March 20-21 2008)
Thursday March 20th
Thursday evening dinner
Side discussion about 'objectivity' and 'truth'
Friday March 21st
Morning Round table Discussion
5 grand challenges for the 21st Century
Preliminary Set of Foundational Issues
- New forms of communication and participation - (verbal and non-verbal, e.g. gesture) in the classroom particularly the changing role of identity
- The roles of technology in changing the means and purposes of Mathematics Education
- The roles and nature of proof and justification across Mathematics Education from kindergarten through graduate study
- The issue of the best way to account for students understanding and personal meaning attached to mathematical knowledge (either concepts, know how, skills, etc)
- Plausible curricular futures in Mathematics Education – Trajectories for next generation Standards and beyond (across and within topic areas)
- The changing nature of the mathematics of change and variation in the computational medium – complexity and dynamical mathematics
- The historical evolution of representation in mathematics and its deeper impact
- The nature of the capacity for change at the individual, school, district and regional levels and how these capacities interact - {please replace with international nouns}
- Social, cultural and political impacts on change based upon new innovations in mathematics education and the learning sciences
- Conditions that support having an impact in the real world
[edit] 2nd Foundational Issues in Mathematics Education Symposium (November 20-21 2008)
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[edit] Research Projects
[edit] SimCalc
Here you can read of the ongoing work of the SimCalc project funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, US Department of Education, July 2007-June 2011
- Use of SimCalc MathWorlds by local teachers
- Translation of SimCalc MathWorlds(TM) into other languages. Visit Internationalization_Efforts
