[Maths-Education] Re: Maths-Education Digest, Vol 77, Issue 5

[Ng Foo Keong]

dear all,

i'd like us to distinguish between the potential of ICT and what has
actually been achieved in our evaluations of the effectiveness of ICT.  for
various reasons, the latter far pales compared to the former.  a lot of
effort by various parties (government, school leaders, teachers, business
entities, technologists, support staff, students, parents ... etc.) needs be
aligned to a _common_ goal in order to achieve success.

Ng, Foo Keong
Independent Educational Consultant (ICT and AR)




On 4 March 2011 20:00, <maths-education-request at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>wrote:

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> This seemed to bounce back first time so I am trying again.  Apologies if
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> Hi
> I am trying to find some evidence about whether ICT has a positive impact
> on attainment in mathematics and wonder if anyone has any good examples?  If
> you look at syntheses of research they tend to find little or no positive
> impact, over and above good teaching.  However, I believe there are some
> examples of where the findings are more positive, usually in terms of a
> particular kind of ICT in a particular context.  Can anyone let me know
> which are the key research reports in this area?  I am particularly
> interested in impact on attainment rather than motivation or engagement
> (even though ultimately this is likely to improve attainment), so ICT use
> that directly helps with understanding of particular concepts for example.
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> Thanks for your help.
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> Sarah
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