Communicating Ideas (Book Review)

Book review: Exploring thinking as communicating in CSCL

Anna Sfard raised the methodological discourse in the CSCL community to a higher niveau of self-understanding a decade ago with her analysis of our two prevalent metaphors for learning: the acquisition metaphor (AM) and the participation metaphor (PM). Despite her persuasive argument in favor of PM and a claim that AM and PM are as incommensurable as day and night, she asked us to retain the us...

Communicating Mathematics: Useful Ideas from Computer Science

1.1 Purpose This article describes certain ideas originating in the theory and practice of computer science, and shows how the teaching and exposition of mathematics could bene ̄t if these ideas were widely understood by mathematicians and used in their teaching and writing. These ideas are discussed here because I believe they are important for mathematicians to understand. Some of them are bas...

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