Report of Ed Dubinsky's Course

First of all I´d like to thank you for the course I just had opportunity to attend. We should have more courses on didactical mathematics.

About the first day: It was interesting first get to know about the theory and the paradigm on which the teaching was based later. One good point which I still remember was that we should make students be interested in mathematics itself with new methods and not offer a substitute which might be easier to understand and maybe at first more interesting. I think there might be a danger also when we are working with ISETL, if the teacher, the advisor don't take his or hers job seriously.

I think that teacher has a great responsibility of the learning process in this method. Teacher cannot think that computer will take care of teaching.

Friday and Saturday were quite similar, working with computers and analysing the learning-teaching process. When I think of my own learning, the best thing in using computers was that it helped me in expressing mathematics in correct way. Usually I'm content when I get the idea. Now it became compulsory to express everything in right order and with right symbols, because computer won´t let us go on before everything is done in right way.

I think that maybe there were too much same kind of practise. Less of it might have given us a good picture of this kind of learning process. Instead I think we should have analysed concepts maybe trying some genetic decomposition.

After I've attended Sisko Repo's courses given in constructive methods I think this kind of teaching with ISETL doesn't help understanding concepts very deeply or maybe there's possibility that it could but it needs lot from the teacher.

On the last day of our course so today , it was nice to get to know about experiments in Mexico. Interesting way of give distant courses. Usually I don't like communicating with machines when its not necessary.

Finally we heard a bit about Rumec and research on this topic. That was also interesting. Now I'll start my essay on gathering data So if I have to add something on this I suppose you let me know.