Round two! (you can see the followup to Round 1 here)
We've set up a Matrix channel to house this community. We chose matrix because of it's awesome federated features (allowing ownership where neccessary) as well as the ability to have rooms as a part of multiple communities. It's also just a really cool community and has the awesome riot client.
You can find the room on riot here.
Alexander Singh will be giving a talk interspered with discussions exploring 3 different Mathetic Primitives and examples of each.
We've used that phrase a bunch so it might be useful to to try and define it. A Mathetic primitive is any tool, mental model, or idea, that furthers learning that cannot be decomposed into a smaller tool mental model or idea.
These ideas are abstract so we want to anchor these primitives to examples and then anchor those examples to concrete applications that we as a community can use to learn about mathetics.
We want to start building a better framework to think about mathetics. This is a discussion that a lot of people get very excited about but the broad range of experiences in relation to education and learning make it difficult to have a deep and effective conversation. This meeting is starting to build a shared language.
These ideas will be initially messy, but we want to start talking about them in order to move forward :)
Nada, but hopefully we'll be able to build nice tools for creating and sharing collections of material in the future.
We had a pretty awesome turnout, with a surprising number of educators present.
Alex's presentation centered on questions and networks, giving both some definitions and concrete examples.
One of the main topics of discussion centered around measurement in relation to these primitives. This came from two main perspectives:
The language of formative and summative assessments came up and we had some awesome insights into formal assessment process presented.
One of the main takeaways from the presentation was that we could use these primitives for our own learning about mathetics. To that end we've created a couple spaces.
The first is an arena channel. For now this is holding Alex's presentation and some earlier research but it will be the home for ideas, concepts and explorations related to the ideas of mathetics. It's a space anyone can drop links and thoughts, and we can progressivley make some sense of it all.
The second is a github organization. This is a space for our more strutured information, for any endeavors we may want to explore (like essays or software)
This meetup was in my eyes an awesome step forward from the first one. We had a great presentation from Alex and some fantastic discussion that drew from a set of diverse backgrounds and experiences.
One way we can make these meetups even better is by creating better artifacts from them. This could be better notes from the discussion, or more writing or essays or other media produced.