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"Seminar on Mathematics Education"

Created : 2002-01-21 Updated: 2002-04-29

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• In this seminar, it is ruled that students are responsible for developing their own ability. Here ability for planning, computer/media-literacy (web-design, etc.) and presentaion (digital, in English) are regarded basic.
  
  
• The ability/skill to be developed is about:
  
  
  • Mathematics education
    • Objectives of mathematics education
    • For each mathematical subject, its meaning.
    • Instruction/learning media.
    • Instruction/learning method.
    • Instruction design
      etc.
    
    
  • Project achivement
    • Joint responsibility for achievement
    • Making plan/proposal
    • practice
    • presentation
    • goal-reaching
    
    
  • Design of web-based education of mathematics
    
    
  • Homepage making, web design
    • HTML
    • FTP
    • Flash
      etc.
    
    
  • Digital contents making
    • 3D CG
    • Digital video editing
    • Streaming video
      etc.
    
    
  • Interactive remote education
    
    
  • Digital Presentation
    
    
  • English ability
  
  
• The above-mentioned abilities/skills are trained by the two types of practice:
  • Self-discipline of basic skills
  • Group-working of project-achievement type
  
  The tasks/assignments for self-discipline are:
  • Making the experience in university mathematics be a sound selling point
  • Raising skills for digital contents making
  • Expressing own ability in the form of personal website for e-education
  • Making a digital presentation in every meeting of the seminar.
  
  The tasks/assignments for group-working are:
  • Making and achieving a program of "CS Distance Learning" presided by Iwamizawa city.
  • Making an exhibition in the campus festival.
  • Presentation in English to visitors from other countries
  • Presentation at a cross-universities meeting on digital contents making
  
  
• What I pay attention, while producing a group-working, is
  • to restrict the period of working and
  • to let students be responsible for reaching the goal,
  which is a condition of full-fledged members of society to be able to work in this manner.
  Indeed, the tasks/assignments mentioned above is such that :
  • It is required to achieve carefully because the target is other people.
  • Deadline exists.
  And students work with tension, feeling that their retreat is cut off.
  
  
• It must, however, be added that this way of instruction has become possible genuinely since this school year (2002 school year). What has been solved is the requirement of tools (hardware and software) and facilities. I used to manage "information design"-oriented education in various kinds of "lack" (expense, performance of soft/hardware, number of soft/hardware, infrastructure and so on). By the way, the soft/hardware and facilities which I furnish to students now are as follows :

Task	Place	Facility
Conents Making	Math Labo	Hardware	Computer	Macintosh G4	3
				iMac	2
				Macintosh G3	1
				Windows	1
			DV/VHS cassette recorder		1
		Software	Draw	Illustrator	3
			Retouch	Photoshop	4
			3D	LightWave 3D	2
			Sound	SoundEdit16	1
			Video edit	FinalCut Pro	2
			Web contents	Flash	3
Presentation	Room #6	Hardware	Projector		1

    

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