Mathematics of the Petroglyphs workshop posted

[Mia Kalish (LFP)]

Yeah, the Navajo shapes movie was built from the Espanol shapes movie. . . I
had hoped to get Navajo . . . not so far. 

 

Your comments are good. I will ponder them . . see what others have to say. 

 

I am designing so that my materials fit into what Papert calls "no ceiling,
no floor". Digital Natives automatically start exploring with the mouse to
see what's hot. Digital immigrants don't. Also, Digital Natives tend to
ignore what's written, expecting more to be available through the action
than through the words. 

 

Does anyone else have any input? I am really interested in your viewpoints
relative to intuitiveness and instruction. 

 

Thanks, 

Mia

 

 

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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
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Hi Mia, 

 

It's been a while, been busy with all kinds of workshops and grading, yikes.
Hope you are well.

 

 

 I liked the part where you spoke while things were happening in "show me" I
thought that your presentation was packed full of information and I think
I'd have some kind of summary our outline of the basic information you want
to present. There might be too much commentary. Possibly hyperlinks for some
of your footnotes would make it less wordy. I think editing it like a poem,
where only essential information is provided up front and other information
is footnoted. 

 

Navigation was not intuitive for me. That doesn't mean it won't be for
others. Maybe the menu should include something like Start here. I had to
play around with things for some time to figure out what I was doing and
where things moved to. 

 

Hope this is the feedback you were looking for.

 

 

 I think Phil was right on the Navajo, it sounded like Spanish to me. 

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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology
[mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]On Behalf Of Mia Kalish (LFP)
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 6:38 PM
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Subject: [ILAT] Mathematics of the Petroglyphs workshop posted

Hello, Everyone, 

 

I was invited to teach a workshop at the recent PMET conference for math
teachers at Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque. I
constructed my workshop materials in a web format and used lots of
Macromedia Flash movies to demonstrate the principles. It is called
Mathematics of the Petroglyphs. I have numbers and shapes in 8 and 7
languages respectively, some with native speaker voicing. I have equations
in White Mountain Apache, and diagrams of principles, also in White Mountain
Apache. 

 

There is the sound of an elk from Mescalero (click the blue elk movie). The
rule is that 98% of the movies have action. There are click me buttons to
move the action forward. In one case, the task is to explore the petroglyph,
and click on the movie buttons to show the detail. 

 

It's really easy, despite all the yapping. 

 

http://learningforpeople.us/PMETABQ2005/  My  idea with this workshop was to
show how (Greek ethno) mathematics is not the only "Math". I gave the
teachers CDs with copies of the Flash source so their students could create
their own materials, and modify the movies for use with their own languages.


 

I would like very much to hear what people think. 

 

Best, 

Mia

 

 

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