Educators spend much of their time exploring ways to improve the teaching and learning of knowledge that has undergone significant changes over the past century. Curriculum development has been based on the needs of the pre-computer era, with outdated technologies and forms of representation that have become—at least for some subjects—largely obsolete.
In this lecture, Dr. Noss will consider how digital representations offer the possibility of re-evaluating how we express and design, and how we can rethink our notions of complexity and hierarchy, as well as their implications for social inclusion. To this end, he will draw on examples from the work of the Technology Enhanced Learning Research Programme, a four-year national research effort carried out through an interdisciplinary collaboration between two of the UK’s research councils.
Noss holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from King’s Chelsea College in London. He is a professor of Mathematics Education at the Institute of Education (IOE) at the University of London. He directs the Technology Enhanced Learning Research Programme, a national research initiative that seeks to advance the frontiers of the design and application of technology for learning, jointly funded by theEconomic and Social Research Council andthe Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He is a member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences.
He currently leads the MiGen project, which aims to design and implement an intelligent learning environment to improve mathematics learning among students aged 11 to 14. His most recent book (co-authored with Hoyles, Kent, and Bakker), “Improving Mathematics at Work, ” examines the mathematical knowledge and skills that matter in the 21st-century workplace and how the use of mathematics in the workplace is evolving in the rapidly changing context of new technologies and globalization.
He is the former editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning ( now the Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Learning). He was co-founder and deputy scientific director of Kaleidoscope, the European Network of Excellence for Technology-Enhanced Learning.
The lecture, which was open to the public, was delivered in English with simultaneous translation.
Presentation by Dr. Noss