Practise what you preach: the Interactive Whiteboard in preschool mathematics education

What ain’t mathematics education?!

Abstract: In 1996 at the first Iranian Mathematics Education Conference (IMEC1) that was held in Isfahan. I obliged myself as a mathematics educator, to inform the mathematics community at large by presenting a paper entitled “what is mathematics education?” to pave the way for the establishment of the master program of mathematics education in Iran. Now, after 16 years, we need to reflect on t...

Don’t practice what you preach

Heterodox economists, most notably Tony Lawson, have come under suspicion of not being true pluralists, but ‘strategic pluralists’ or ‘paradigm warriors’. But should an advocate of pluralism be a pluralist himself? Though this assertion sounds like a truism, I argue against it. More specifically, this paper clarifies the notion of pluralism by introducing an often neglected but crucial distinct...

Exemplary medicine: why doctors should practise what they preach.

SOAs an Hochschulen - Practice What You Preach!

Dienstorientierte Softwarearchitekturen (service-oriented architectures, SOA) sind ein neues attraktives Konzept zur Organisation umfangreicher verteilter Systeme bzw. Anwendungen. Die grundlegende Idee besteht darin, Anwendungen aus im Netz verfügbaren Komponenten aufzubauen, die über Dienstschnittstellen zugreifbar sind. Anwendungsentwicklung besteht dann kaum noch aus Programmierung im Klein...

Programming Education on an Interactive Electronic Whiteboard

This paper describes a new paradigm of programming education using a large electronic whiteboard that combines the merits of classroom lectures using a black/white board and those of computer processing. Using this system, a teacher can write a program on the board, explain it, make the system recognize it and run the program in front of the class while keeping the attention of the students foc...