<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This article provides a methodology with two potential applications: to prove useful to maths teachers for analysing and evaluating the educational potential of different digital artefacts and to help designers of maths learning artefacts to evaluate their design during the implementation phase. The educational potential of an artefact is considered as an entity determined by actions and representations structure available within the artefact, the interpretation and behaviour of who uses it and the features of the activity in which it is used. The proposed methodology is based on the notions of affordance, narrative and cycle of expansive learning. The methodology has been applied on AlNuSet, a system designed for supporting the teaching and learning of algebra by means of modalities of interaction that are of visual, spatial and motor nature.</p></abstract>

This article provides a methodology with two potential applications: to prove useful to maths teachers for analysing and evaluating the educational potential of different digital artefacts and to help designers of maths learning artefacts to evaluate their design during the implementation phase. The educational potential of an artefact is considered as an entity determined by actions and representations structure available within the artefact, the interpretation and behaviour of who uses it and the features of the activity in which it is used. The proposed methodology is based on the notions of affordance, narrative and cycle of expansive learning. The methodology has been applied on AlNuSet, a system designed for supporting the teaching and learning of algebra by means of modalities of interaction that are of visual, spatial and motor nature.

A framework to evaluate the educational potential of a digital artefact for math learning

Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche (ITD), CNR, Italy

Research on Education and Media

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This article provides a methodology with two potential applications: to prove useful to maths teachers for analysing and evaluating the educational potential...

A framework to evaluate the educational potential of a digital artefact for math learning

Published Online: Feb 19, 2016

Page range: 28 - 35

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rem-2015-0013

Keywords
Mathematics, Computer-assisted learning

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

A framework to evaluate the educational potential of a digital artefact for math learning

Published Online: Feb 19, 2016

Page range: 28 - 35

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rem-2015-0013

KeywordsMathematics, Computer-assisted learning

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Mathematics, Computer-assisted learning