Call for participation in the open workshop

 

Interactive Learning Environments (ILEs) for arithmetic and algebra education: the TELMA approach

Grenoble, France – November 14, 2006 – 8h30 to 17h.

Click here to access the slides presented at the workshop  

Abstract

You are invited to participate in a workshop organised by the European Research Team on Technology Enhanced Learning in Mathematics (TELMA) of the Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence . This workshop is focused on Interactive Learning Environments (ILEs) for arithmetic and algebra. During the workshop, studies of ILEs realized carried out by TELMA researchers will be presented together with the results of the cross-experimentation of three of them.

Moreover an ILE developed within the ActiveMath European Project will be presented by Erica Melis who is responsible for this project.

 

Participation and Accomodation

The participation is free but limited to 100 participants due to the capacity of the room where the event will take place. Lunch is offered. Travel and accommodation (see list of suggested hotels ) costs are to the responsibility of each participant.

If you intend to participate, please click here to fill the registration form.

Click here to see the program of the workshop

The deadline for registration is October 31.

Registered participants will be authomatically subscribed to the workshop's mailing list which will be used (together with the web site) to provide any further information.

What is TELMA?

TELMA is a research project of the Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence involving six European research teams working in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning in Mathematics. The project focuses on the development of integrative perspectives in that area, with particular interest on systems of representations, contexts and theoretical frames.

For this purpose, TELMA has developed a specific design of cross-experimentations: interactive learning environments (ILEs) produced by one team are experimented by other teams, allowing the researchers to compare the effects of different educational and research contexts and cultures. The teams also study ILEs produced by non-TELMA teams with a focus on algebra.

TELMA teams belong to the following Institutions:

Institute of Education, London - UK

CNR, Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche, Genova – Italy

University of Paris 7, DIDIREM, Paris - France

Capodistrian University of Athens, Educational Technology Laboratory, Athens - Greece

MeTAH-Leibniz, Grenoble – France

University of Siena, Siena, Italy

 

A brief overview of the program

 

1) Welcome and presentation of the TELMA approach and work concerning ILEs for arithmetic and algebra education

In this first session TELMA is introduced, focusing in particular on the way in which TELMA researchers have analysed ILEs for mathematics education: both ILEs developed by TELMA teams and ILEs developed by “external” teams are considered.

 

2) ILE Study

In this session the methodology and the tool developed for analysing a number of ILEs is presented together with some of the results obtained from such analyses. Each analysing team will demonstrate the ILE considered and present their analysis grid. Both ILEs developed outside TELMA (AnimalWatch, MathXpert, ActiveMath, Math Teacher, Cognitive Tutor, MrsLindquist) and ILEs developed by a TELMA team (Aplusix, Ari-Lab2, and E-Slate) will be analysed.

 

3) The cross-experimentations project

During this session the cross-experimentation methodology developed by TELMA is presented together with some of the results obtained.

Three ILEs have been considered for the development of the cross-experimentation project: Aplusix (developed by Leibniz-MeTAH, an ILE for the learning of algebra, Arilab2 (developed by CNR-ITD), a microworld-based system for arithmetic, and E-Slate (developed by ETL-Athens) an authoring system allowing the construction of logo-based microworlds.

 

4) Presentation of the ActiveMath ILE by Erica Melis

In this session the ActiveMath ILE will be presented as an example of an ILE developed by another European project. It will be presented by Erica Melis of the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) who is responsible of the ActiveMath project.

 

5) Reaction session

In this session the two following researchers in mathematics education will react to the presentations made during the workshop.

Federica Olivero, Graduate School Education, University of Bristol, UK

Luc Trouche, INRP, Lyon, France

 

 

URLs of the ILEs

AnimalWatch: http://ccbit.cs.umass.edu/AnimalWatch

MathXpert: http://www.mathware.com/mathxpert.html

ActiveMath: http://www.activemath.org/

Math Teacher +: http://www.mathkalusa.com/

Cognitive Tutor: http://www.carnegielearning.com/

MrsLindquist: http://www.algebratutor.org/

Aplusix: http://aplusix.imag.fr/

Ari-Lab2: http://www.cnr.it/istituti/FocusByN_eng.html?cds=102&nfocus=2

E-Slate: http://e-slate.cti.gr/