Diversity in Teachers' Collaborative Design of Digital Resources: The Case of Mathematics and Climate Change

• In Event: Digital Innovations in Teacher Professional Development

Abstract

This study addresses the process of teachers in collectives designing digital educational resources (called “c-books”) aiming to foster students’ creative mathematical thinking. We investigate social creativity in this process by focusing on the boundary-crossing interactions taking place within a socio-technical environment constituted of teachers of diverse expertise interacting with each other and with the c-book technology. The analysis showed that during the design process of a c-book unit on Climate Change, the socio-technical environment allowed the communication and coordination of diverse perspectives and a meshing of narrative with dynamic constructionist artefacts-widgets designed to induce mathematical creativity.

Authors

• Chronis Kynigos

• Maria Daskolia, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens