Parallel Structures of Computer-Assisted Signature Pedagogy: The Case of Integrated Spreadsheets

Abstract

This article was motivated by the authors’ work on a project with a group of 2nd-grade students in a computer lab of a rural school in upstate New York. From this project, one goal of which was to provide a capstone experience for a teacher candidate in teaching application-oriented mathematics with technology, the ideas about parallel structures of two universes—the teacher's and the students’—that echo Shulman's structures of signature pedagogy have been developed. In the article the authors introduce the notion of computer-assisted signature pedagogy and explore its features through the combined lens of teaching and learning using the concept of Type I/Type II technology integration.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors express their gratitude to Joe McDonough, Judy Gutekunst, and Nancy Palmateer—all of Banford Elementary School, Canton, New York—for their cooperation during the project.