Math 2.0 update July 14
July 14th, 2009We had a good start last week with “Where is Math 2.0?” web event at the Future of Education series. Logs will be available shortly. People said they’d like to see a social meeting place for those interested, a regular Twitter chat, a regular LearnCentral voice/multimedia meeting, and a Diigo tag group.
Visit The Future of Education
Toward these goals:
Here is a start of a Wiki called “Math Future” (not “math 2.0″ since it’s somewhat silly, and also in case we progress beyond 2.0) http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/ There, you can add events you organize or attend to the calendar, tell people about your projects, find collaborators, and work toward some common language (math 2.0, math social objects, learning disintermediation and so on).
Twitter chats will be on Wednesdays, July 15th, 6-7pm Pacific / 9-10pm Eastern, with #mathchat tag used. Please volunteer yourself or colleagues to host! I’d like to see 5-7 rotating hosts. This Wednesday, Colleen King of Math Playground (@colleenk) and I (@mariadroujkova) will host it.
Diigo group we will use is Math Links with “Math 2.0″ tag. If any of your bookmarks relate to the topic, can you please add “Math 2.0″ (in quotations) to them? To add tags to other members’ links, click “save” and then select “save to the group” option.
LearnCentral events will start in August (the NECC debriefing is still going strong).
Where is math 2.0?
March 13th, 2009This is a growing slide show with examples of social mathematics web projects. It goes with a study of children participation in social math. If you know more good examples, please comment. Click on the “menu” in the lower right corner of the presentation to embed it into your blog or site.
Trackbacks
Connectivism in Education ning: “How about creative writing? We were taught to write creatively even when we were young. So can we have creative Maths?”
Great Expectations blog: “An excellent collection of math-rich sites built around user-generated content,are found in the form of a slideshow presentation,compiled by Maria D of natural math blog.”
Bizmo Diaries blog: “If you think math is boring, maybe you’re not being “social” enough. Think of math as a contact sport — doesn’t have to mean rough, although when life gets that way, math can help sometimes (or call it computing).”
LETSI - learning, education, training and systems interoperability blog: “Social Mathematics. I mean, that’s just one of those areas that makes my head turn in ways I never thought it could turn. Maria’s got me pegged — even as a former math teacher, and a person who “sees the Matrix” with regularity ( // I nerd out when it comes to programming, logic and math), the picture in my head of social learning is largely driven by practices in social media — and they are almost entirely language/narrative-based scenarios.”
Mathematics 24×7 ning: “Earlier I was also under this impression that children cannot do or learn Math outside Math classroom, but after experimenting with them and with selected projects I really found it useful . On students network they ask queries, answer to assignments by uploading their presentations/files etc. I have seen a positive impact on students who are shy in asking problems in a class. I have used blog/wiki/podcast features in my Math class for not only teaching learning Math but also eradicating a phobia of learning the subject.”
