Inside Mathforum.org - Analysis of an Internet-Based Education Community

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

This book details how the Math Forum uses the internet and digital media to support learning interactions of teachers and students. It is a case study for university students, pre-service teachers, and faculty members interested in how learning and professional development can be supported by digital media and online spaces.

Product details

• Authors: Wesley Shumar, Wesley (Drexel University Shumar, Shumar Wesley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781316503676
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50367-6
• No. of pages: 201
• Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives; Learning in Doing: Social, Cog
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Philosophy of Mathematics, Study & learning skills: general, Social and cultural anthropology, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Mathematics & numeracy, Study and learning skills: general, Numeracy strategies