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Developing A Healthy Scepticism About Technology In Mathematics Teaching, Peter J. Rowlett
Developing A Healthy Scepticism About Technology In Mathematics Teaching, Peter J. Rowlett
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
A reflective account is presented of experiences which took place alongside a research project and caused a change in approach to be more sceptical about implementation of learning technology. A critical evaluation is given of a previous e-assessment research project, undertaken from a position of naive enthusiasm for learning technology. Experiences of teaching classes and designing assessment tasks lead to doubts regarding the extent to which the previous project encouraged deep learning and contributed to graduate skills development. Investigations of the benefits of another technology – in-class response systems – lead to revelations about learning technology: its enthusiastic introduction in …