Thread:A course which personalizes authentic math learning for each individual learner (1)

Wow, I'm really impressed with the ideas for this course. I had been assuming this would be a conglomeration of basic math topics which learners would need to step through linearly. But no, each learner gets a chance to figure out what they need to work on, and then works with someone to design a learning plan. That's just how it should work! I do hope we can solve the scalability issues with how to do this with many 100's of learners at a time. It is so just what people need!

And not only is the course personalized, the learner gets to work on an authentic math-related problem. Yay!

I agree with Wayne that the course will need a strong collection of tutorials to support the use of technology, which will be crucial to a learner's success. I would think that spreadsheet tutorials will be needed for openoffice.org Calc (and maybe including a version for LibreOffice as well...which comes standard on more recent versions of Ubuntu), and also for MS Excel..and any others which are commonly available (as a learner should be encouraged to use whichever they have readily available).

Are there useful, openly licensed tutorials for WolframAlpha? It seems to me that it would be pretty intuitive for someone who already knows math, in particular math symbols, but could be quite daunting for a beginner....but oh so useful once they get the hang of it. Do you use the Google calculator much in your math instruction?

I'm happy to help out. Let me know. I plan to check back often.

Alison