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Teaching Programming through Mathematics: The PyGgb Platform
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Michael Borcherds; Florian Derflinger; Zoltán Kovács; Ben North – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2025
We introduce the free web-app PyGgb -- the combination of the well-known programming language Python and the dynamic mathematics system GeoGebra. Motivated by the desire to provide an introduction to Python coding in the familiar context of mathematics and geometry, PyGgb allows GeoGebra constructions to be created using Python code. We outline…
Descriptors: Programming, Mathematics Education, Coding, Geometry
Crowded House: An Analysis of How the Virtual Learning Environment Moodle Is Built via Bug Tracker Participants
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Costello, Eamon; Johnston, Keith; Wade, Vincent – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This research investigated how the bug tracker database of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Moodle is developed as an application of crowd work. The bug tracker is used by software developers, who write and maintain Moodle's code, but also by a wider public world of ordinary Moodle users who can report bugs. Despite many studies of the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Computer Software, Cooperation
The Turtle and the Mouse: How Constructivist Learning Theory Shaped Artificial Intelligence and Educational Technology in the 1960s
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Hof, Barbara – History of Education, 2021
Drawing on historical epistemology and considerations on the function of scientific modelling, this article investigates how in the mid-twentieth century electronic and programmable animal models became tools for exploring the inaccessible ontology of the human mind. The article examines how machines have informed our understanding of the learning…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Epistemology
Interactive Simulations for the Effective Learning of Physics
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Urban-Woldron, Hildegard – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2009
Appropriate educational technologies have the potential to make physics' concepts more accessible through visualization, modeling and multiple representations. Students are engaged in more powerful scientific activities and they are able to perform investigations that would not be possible without the use of technology. This paper presents…
Descriptors: Physics, Computer Software, Educational Technology, Internet
MuseumScouts: Exploring How Schools, Museums and Interactive Technologies Can Work Together to Support Learning
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Wishart, Jocelyn; Triggs, Pat – Computers & Education, 2010
In this paper we report on the successes and challenges of a creative project involving museums, schools and interactive technologies. The MuseumScouts project is EU Comenius 2.1 funded and involves teachers, teacher educators, museum staff, students and researchers from five European countries: Germany (Berlin and Munich), Lithuania (Vilnius),…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Museums, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
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Fuchs, Karl Josef; Simonovits, Reinhard; Thaller, Bernd – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2008
This paper describes a high school project where the mathematics teaching and learning software M@th Desktop (MD) based on the Computer Algebra System Mathematica was used for symbolical and numerical calculations and for visualisation. The mathematics teaching and learning software M@th Desktop 2.0 (MD) contains the modules Basics including tools…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Web Sites, Internet, Algebra