GETTING IT TOGETHER: ANTHROPOLOGY AND GENERAL EDUCATION

Getting It Together: Enabling Multi-organization Provenance Exchange

We present an architecture that supports provenance queries in large, dynamic, multi-organizational environments. The Provenance Challenges have explored exchange across disparate provenance systems, yet this is only a first step. We describe requirements for multi-organizational provenance, evaluate candidate architectures, describe the approach implemented in the PLUS prototype provenance man...

Anthropology and Education

Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematical ideas and practices situated in their cultural context. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) are web-based software applications that allow students to create simulations of cultural arts—Native American beadwork, African American cornrow hairstyles, urban graffiti, and so forth—using these underlying mathematical principles. This article is a r...

Anthropology of Education

Biologically-Inspired Design: Getting It Wrong and Getting It Right

Large, complex computing systems have many similarities to biological systems, at least at a high level. They consist of a very large number of components, the interactions between which are complex and dynamic, and the overall behavior of the system is not always predictable even if the components are well understood. These similarities have led the computing community to look to biology for d...

Getting It Right : Capacity Building for Local Stakeholders in Education