Setting the Stage for Reflective Practice: Multimedia Case Study Development
Type: Brief Paper Topic: Special Education/Assistive Technology
Room: 8
Fri, Mar. 4 2:10 PM-2:30 PM
Authors:
Ellen Meier, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
Kathy Powell, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
Babette Moeller, EDC/Center for Children & Technology, USA
Barbara Dubitsky, Bank Street College, USA
Abstract:
A multidisciplinary team of college faculty and professional educators are collaborating on a four year National Science Foundation project to develop multimedia case studies to help teachers address the needs of all students, including students with disabilities, within a standards-based mathematics curriculum. Now in their second year, "Mathematics for All" collaborators are finalizing four video case studies. This qualitative study of the project, based on observations, interviews, and reflections from the college faculty, reveal that the process of working together to create the multimedia case studies has influenced college faculty thinking in at least three important ways: 1) media is newly seen as an artifact of learning in higher education classrooms; 2) faculty are connected in new ways to the learning process in elementary classrooms; and 3) the collaboration has created new content and pedagogical content knowledge for special education and mathematics educators.