TEACHERS AS DESIGNERS OF DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR CREATIVE MATHEMATICAL THINKING (original) (raw)

TEACHERS AS DESIGNERS OF DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR CREATIVE MATHEMATICAL THINKING

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.