Wesley Shumar

Inside Mathforum.org

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Produktbeschreibung

Inside Mathforum.org is an ethnographic study of how digital media transform the learning contexts of both teachers and students of mathematics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 201
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781316503676
• ISBN-10: 1316503674
• Artikelnr.: 56927314

Autorenporträt

Wesley Shumar is an anthropologist at Drexel University, Philadelphia. His research focuses on digital media, math education and virtual educational communities. Since 1997, he has worked as an ethnographer at the Math Forum. Currently, he is Co-Principal Investigator on EnCoMPASS, a four-year National Science Foundation (NSF) project designed to build an online community of math teachers through formative assessment and a focus on student problem-solving. He was the Principal Investigator on two other NSF projects, the Online Mentoring Project and the Math Forum's Virtual Fieldwork Sequence. He is co-editor of Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace (with K. Ann Renninger, Cambridge, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Ethnography with a leading internet-based educational center
3. History of the Math Forum
4. Possibilities and their foreclosure in the digital educational economy
5. Mathematical conversations and mathematical thinking
6. Mentoring students and faculty with digital technology
7. Noticing and wondering in a mediated environment
8. Space, affinity, and consciousness
9. Identity and online interaction
10. Conclusion
References
Index.