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Home / formazione / Seminari FDS-2Teach 2018/19 / Math forums: potentialities and constraints
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31 luglio 2019, ore 10.30-12:30,
Aula semiari 6 piano, Dipartimento di Matematica.
Il workshop è composto da due seminari e seguti da una attività di discussione.
ore 10:30-11:30:
Open online forums as a window into remarkable mathematical discourses: The case of conventions that ‘annoy’ mathematicians
Prof. Igor Kontorovich, University of Auckland, New Zeland
Internet is replete with open online mathematical forums, some of which bring together mathematically competent participants who are interested in discussing authentic mathematical issues. In this talk, I will focus on one community of practicing mathematicians, mathematics lecturers, and graduate students who enthusiastically exchanged posts about “mathematical conventions that are annoying, those that nobody likes but it’s too late to cancel”. I will use their discussion to argue that mathematical communication that takes place in open online forums is an underappreciated source of data which is valuable for analysis on its own right and that it is capable of shedding a new light on mathematics teaching and learning that takes place in regular classrooms. ore 11:30-12:00
Using a mathematical forum in a graduate course: the nature of Rick's and John's partecipation
Dott.ssa Giulia Bernardi
Our work focuses on a traditional graduate course paired with online asynchronous forum that involved engineering students. The number of students in the course was larger than expected and the forum was suggested to all students as a way to interact between students and with the teacher. We used network analysis to look for central students in the network of the interactions within the forum and then interviewed two of the most active students to better understand their use of this technological tool. In this paper, we present our findings with the network analysis and the feedback the students gave us to understand the reason why they use the forum.
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| Responsabile dell'attività Domenico Brunetto |
