Technology Enhanced Learning Environment –  WISE, MYWORLD, JASPER and CHEMLAND Strengthening pedagogical structures The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) in their 2010 report and in the 2011 report by the Joint Mathematical Council of the United Kingdom report that expected increases in enhanced learning using digital technologies have not been realised. […]

Technology Enhanced Learning Environment:T-GEM, IWB, Web 2.0 and simulations Integration Subject: Mathematics Concept: Quadratic equations This concept is a challenge from personal practice. Another pedagogical challenge experienced is adding relevance and real world application. Digital Technologies: Interactive Whiteboard (IWB), Graphing Simulation, Web 2.0 technology The interactive whiteboard was chosen for its interactive capabilities as well as strength in […]

Extensions for the mathematics classroom WorldWatcher and LFU Edelson et al. (2002) explored the implementation of Worldwatcher based on the LFU design model (see table 1 below) within a middle school use and application of a project, the ‘Planetary Forecaster’ model and software support, in the school’s curriculum unit for Earth systems science. The emphases […]

Integrating content studies and inquiry process learning Educational challenges Research and application of the Learning for Use (LFU) and WorldWatcher models were based primarily on the lack of integration of content studies with the inquiry process and for inquiry to play more of a role in scientific learning. The premise was that students were lacking […]

Motivation for WISE The motivation for the creation and development of WISE was the desire to use the power of easy to use, affordable and accessible technology to support a structured curriculum of science education using theories of inquiry-based learning and scaffolding knowledge integration in order to achieve literacy in science(Slotta & Linn, 2009). Literacy […]

Theoretical framework The theoretical framework underpinning the Jasper series is on anchored learning in which instruction is anchored on solving a complex problem. It is a constructivist approach in which students have a meaningful experience. In this experience problem setting is essential and forms the basis of that meaningful experience. Understanding how people think is […]

Description The Jasper Series is a series of fourteen movies that are used in technology enhanced learning environments.  Each movie/video provides a number of problem solving scenarios that require students to come up with mathematical solutions to real life problems/questions. The media offers audio and visual sets that are arranged and narrated as an adventure. […]

Investigating Pedagogical design of a technology-enhanced learning experience for math and/or science   When we look at a technology enhanced learning experience we look at the process of learning alongside the affordances created by technology within the environment itself.  The environment and the space are both influenced by the type of technology and how it […]

I. Definition/Metaphor of Technology I like Muffolleto’s (1994) discussion of technology ‘as a way of acting’. I believe that it is more so now as man has become even more integrated with technology. Donna Harraway’s (1991) discusses the concept of cyborgs, which talks of this seamless integration of man with computers/machines/technology. Technology as a way […]