Conference paper
The Sherpa-Student Role with a Graphics Calculator:Empowering or Disempowering?
25th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) 2002 (Auckland, New Zealand, 07/07/2002–10/07/2002)
2002
Abstract
This paper explores student empowerment in the context of graphics calculator usage. The setting is revision and a student has her calculator attached to an overhead projection panel, hence the Sherpa-student role. She is working according to the teacher's instruction. Problematically, she lags the teacher's instruction and another student preempts her answers. In addition, the teacher uses tripartite questioning which can mediate against student empowerment, but a mitigating factor is students disrupt the questioning repeatedly. Use of the overhead panel and the conditions that worked towards and against student empowerment are discussed in the paper.
Details
- Title
- The Sherpa-Student Role with a Graphics Calculator:Empowering or Disempowering?
- Authors/Creators
- P. Forster (Author/Creator)P. Taylor (Author/Creator)C. Davis (Author/Creator)
- Conference
- 25th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) 2002 (Auckland, New Zealand, 07/07/2002–10/07/2002)
- Identifiers
- 991005543083507891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
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