Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Seminar: Prof. Richard Noss, University of London

What we teach is dominated by what you could teach with pencil and paper 200 years ago.

The iPad is the moment when We discovered that office work is not the dominant mode of interaction.

I like any one who quotes Illich
Convivial computing anyone?

If your dealing with paper the starting with line graphs, the move to curves. With software why not start with curves and use lines as special cases.

AI is just getting to the point were is might be useful. AI ED is big but no AI in actual class rooms.

Technology is helping with inclusion.

We talk about using technology to affect how we tech but not what we teach.
Is Doing calculus on the bus is the definition of flexible learning?

Who,how ,what.

Personal inquiry project.
Simplifed problems in science are boring but the best you could with paper. Complexity is interesting and something you can do with computing.

Mi-gen some ideas look hard when you doing have the right way of dealing with them.
Find the right representation and you can teach anything.

People get lost at X and Y - when you get to the abstractions.


Xpresser the swimming pool calculator.

Algrebra is a set of rules for manipulating symbols.Algebra 1
Algebra is also way of thinking. The general case over specifics. Algebra 2

Algebra 2

Tool try's to use AI to diagnose problems make sense of what students are doing.
No ontology about how we think mathematically.
We don't need intelligent tutoring systems - we can't do them if we can't understand the ontology of the subject.

Responding to students emotional estate in maths panic is the emotional state.

Where is teachers facebook?


Personally I am tempted to wonder what would happen if you used a stream based programming language. Pipes moving data . Could you use this to create the balance





Like notion of jam jars on table with number underneath it.

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