Thursday, June 20, 2013

Culturally Situated Design Tools

http://csdt.rpi.edu/

There's a lot of stuff on here and I haven't had time to make sense of it, but I don't want to lose this link. I especially appreciate that so much of it is connected to higher-level math because authentic, interesting culturally relevant pedagogy feels nearly impossible to find for upper-level high school math. This feels like it's using the "gimmick" of the cultural connection in a useful, non-cheesy way.

The thing I'm most interested in right this second is how to adapt the concepts and ideas presented to activities that (1) do not require use of technology--or that build from the technology to push beyond guess and check, (2) are more groupworthy.

Thoughts?

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