Re: [xmca] a living archive of practice, anyone?

From: Ed Wall (ewall@umich.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 17 2007 - 20:19:28 PST


Both Lampert and Ball had portions of their archives digitized (5th
and 3rd grade class respectively - a grad student, Ruth Heaton taught
4th and turned her experience into a thesis and a book) and used them
at Michigan State and later at the University of Michigan. In either
case this was a small proportion of what was available and much of it
has never been made more generally available. Lampert hosted a
conference in the late 90s and there were discussions about how to
made such materials more generally available - there was a contingent
from the Netherlands (the Freudenthal Institute) that had engaged in
building a massive archive - however, I don't think much came of
that. It is an interesting archive for a number of reasons; however,
one is that it is a moderately complete record of teaching
mathematics over a complete school year.

Ed Wall

>There's a book on this by Ball & Lampert, at
>http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Multimedia-Mathematics-Investigations-Practitioner/dp/0807737577/
>
>I've used this in doctoral classes.
>While the multimedia archive aspect is valuable, I actually find
>more value in the wisdom of their understanding of curriculum, in
>general, and teacher education curriculum, in particular.
>
>On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Mike Cole wrote:
>
>>Thganks Jay-- Seems like we will devote an LCHC meeting to these materials
>>and see where it goes from there.
>>mike
>>
>>On 3/16/07, Jay Lemke <jaylemke@umich.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>The Link is
>>>
>>>
>>>http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/insideteaching/quest/collections.html
>>>
>>>or back up this link to /insideteaching, which is the portal homepage.
>>>
>>>I have just been invited to join a working group to plan an
>>>initiative here around working intensively in both research and
>>>teacher education with multimedia records of practice. Our new dean,
>>>Deborah Ball, and one of my colleagues here, Magdalene Lampert, both
>>>in mathematics education were pioneers in this area, and their
>>>original data files still exist are being retro-coverted to current
>>>digital file formats. In the mid-90s they collected a year's worth of
>>>teaching practice, with video, audio, teacher's notes, interviews
>>>with teachers, students' notes in class, seating charts, student
>>>work, all interlinked in a database. The video in those days was on
>>>video laserdisc. I attach an image from the file menu showing what
>>>was included. It was a proof-of-concept study and probably more
>>>extensive than has been done since.
>>>
>>>Data like this is a goldmine for AT-based analysis, and in the
>>>future, adding in more on the historical context of practices in a
>>>school, and other AT-relevant contextual information, or looking in
>>>this way more focally at processes of individual and institutional
>>>change, can be very rich indeed.
>>>
>>>JAY.
>>>
>>>
>>>>Here's an interesting activity: It's called "Inside Teaching: A living
>>>>archive of practice." It has "multi-media records of practice." It's
>>>from
>>>>the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Cyndy Greenleaf
>>>>called my attention to it.
>>>>PG
>>>>
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>>>--
>>>
>>>JAY L. LEMKE
>>>Educational Studies
>>>University of Michigan
>>>610 East University
>>>Ann Arbor, MI 48109
>>>
>>>Ph: 734-763-9276
>>>Fax: 734-936-1606
>>>www.umich.edu/~jaylemke/
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