QUESTION 1
What ICT skills will students need for workplaces that involve mathematics and science?
- Spreadsheet
- Data Collection tools
- Simulation
- Communication tools
- NP's e-Competencies Framework: Generic e-Skills and e-Tools [Year 1, Year 2, Year 3 Competencies]
- Learning by Doing: Software Skills, Simulations and Situated Learning
- Learning by Collaborating
- Learning by Researching
- Learning by Reflecting
- Urban Wire (online production by journalism students at NP): http://theurbanwire.com/
- npTribune (journalism students' paper-based publication): http://theurbanwire.com/nptribune
- TechXav (student-run technology blog): http://techxav.com/
Tool for keeping track of research and citation
- zotero (works in Firefox only)
Do we... Apply Math to Real Problems?
>> DON'T!
Rather, start with real problems and get students to observe, conjecture, measure, analyse, propose - and think mathematically.
Some tools...
- Netlogo - http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
Mini-projects:
Suggestion:
Adopt an overall theme, e.g. 20 Global Problems and Twenty years to Solve them
ICT APPLICATIONS / TOOLS... what potential????
(i) Geogebra
- http://www.geogebra.org/cms/
- Tutorial
- Derivative of a cubic
- Example: Polar Plotter
- Example: Trig Definitions
(ii) Wolfam Alpha
- http://www.wolframalpha.com/
- Wolfram Demonstration Project - http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/
(iii) Exploring Mathematics
- GraphSketch - http://graphsketch.com/
(iv) Communicating Mathematics
- GoogleDoc - Equation Editor
- This is Interactive Mathematics - http://www.intmath.com/
- Maths Email - http://www.intmath.com/Help/send-math-email.php
- Jing videos (get students to make video) - http://www.jingproject.com/
- WizIQ - Web conferencing - screen share, video, etc
(v) Stretching the students
- Explore nature of limits (slope of a curve at a point) with GeoGebra
- Fractals: Images, Movie
- Math Behind Beauty
(vi) Data Visualisation
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