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SimCalc and the Networked Classroom

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The SimCalc Vision and Contributions

Part of the book series: Advances in Mathematics Education ((AME))

Abstract

This chapter describes five major categories of learning activity designs which span a range of possibilities for leveraging the combined representation and communications infrastructure (Hegedus and Moreno-Armella, 2009) of classroom network technologies. These five activity structures, including mathematical performances, participatory aggregation, generative activities, small groups, and participatory simulations, have emerged over the past fifteen years from work both within the SimCalc project and in several independent lines of inquiry among researchers in the Kaput Center network. We present examples of each activity structure, and draw on Roschelle and Teasley’s (1995) framework for examining computer-mediated collaborative problem solving in order to assess developments in the study of group-centered learning that have been enabled by this research.

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    Download the Sack Race activity software/curriculum documents at: http://www.kaputcenter.umassd.edu/products/curriculum_new/algebra1/units/unit2/.

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    Download the Spreading Apart activity software/curriculum documents at: http://www.kaputcenter.umassd.edu/products/curriculum_new/algebra1/units/unit4/.

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  1. Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in STEM Education, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA, 02747, USA

    Corey Brady & Stephen Hegedus

  2. School of Education, University of California Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Tobin White

  3. Department of Teacher Education, College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston, SC, 29424, USA

    Sarah Davis

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  1. University of Massachusetts, Mill Road 200, Fairhaven, 02719, Massachusetts, USA

    Stephen J. Hegedus

  2. Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International, Ravenswood Avenue 333BN-376, Menlo Park, 94025, California, USA

    Jeremy Roschelle

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Brady, C., White, T., Davis, S., Hegedus, S. (2013). SimCalc and the Networked Classroom. In: Hegedus, S., Roschelle, J. (eds) The SimCalc Vision and Contributions. Advances in Mathematics Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5696-0_7

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