Information Technology & Mathematics
Tools for 21st Century Learning
Tools for 21st Century Learning
Greater San Diego Mathematics Council 2008 Math Conference
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Participants will:
- learn about information technology
- learn about populations that are not represented in associated careers
- learn about new tools that can be applied to education through mathematics
- learn about resources to explore further on information technology
- see examples tools modeled in the session
Introduction: Take advantage of resources made available by ubiquitous cyberinfrastructure such as open source software, modeling and simulation tools, web-based collaboration environments, and electronic data. Access to these resources provides learning experiences beyond textbooks and outside the walls of the classroom.
The Internet, search engines, resource centers, digital libraries, and online data archives.
- Identification, evaluation, and utilization of online resources.
- Copyright, licensing, and cost for open source, free, and commercial software.
- Essential skills in downloading and learning how to use modeling and simulation tools.
- Main components and benefits of Web-based collaboration environment supported by online workspaces and labs, Learning Management Systems, podcasting, chatting, blogging, video conferencing, and Web conferencing.
- Tools that contribute to, access, and analyze large data sets.
Web Sites
Workshop Sites
- Balloon Interactive Tool: http://projects.cs.csusm.edu/techquest/balloon/balloon.swf
- Cool Cat Blog: http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2007/03/math-web-20-wikis-and-connecting-with.html
- Delicious: http://del.icio.us
- Edublogs.org: blogs allow collaboration with peers and experts outsite the classroom
- Wikispaces.org: Wikis provide space for groups to collaborate and share data, documents and information
- Calcoolate: Internet Calculator: http://www.calcoolate.com/
- Google Docs includes a spreadsheet application (collaborative and online): http://www.google.com
Resources
Definition of Information Technology: A term that encompasses all forms of technology (hardware, software, communication network) used to create, store, exchange and utilize information in its various forms including business data, conversations, still images, motion pictures and multimedia presentations.
Scripps Institute of Oceanography: Developed in 1935 by Charles F. Richter of the California Institute of Technology as a mathematical device to compare the size of earthquakes.
Determined from the logarithm of the amplitude of waves recorded by seismographs with adjustments for the variation in the distance between the various seismographs and the epicenter of the earthquakes.
Because of the logarithmic basis of the scale, each whole number step in magnitude corresponds to the release of about 31 times more energy than that of the preceding whole number value.
A magnitude 1 seismic wave releases as much energy as blowing up 6 ounces of TNT while a magnitude 8 earthquake releases as much energy as detonating 6 million tons of TNT.
This presentation was given at the Greater San Diego Mathematics Council 2008 Math Conference in San Diego
Questions: Dr. Kathy Hayden: khayden@csusm.edu; Dr. Youwen Ouyang: ouyang@csusm.edu