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The Application & Use of for Electronic Learning Environments Founded by Stephen Wolfram in 1987, Wolfram Research is one of the world's most respected software companies—as well as a powerhouse of scientific and technical innovation. As pioneers in computational science and the computational paradigm, they have pursued a long-term vision to develop the science, technology, and tools to make computation an ever-more-potent force in today's and tomorrow's world. (Source: Wolfram Research Company Background. http://www.wolfram.com/company/background.html) Charles L. Crawford – Dublin City Schools, Dublin, Ohio Dr. Bradley Trees – Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio wolframalpha.com Access the Wolfram|Alpha computational know- ledge engine directly from any current web browser. Developer Products Build on the Wolfram|Alpha platform to create breakthrough web, mobile, and desktop applications. Mobile Apps Wolfram|Alpha apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android—because every smart device needs a knowledge app. Wolfram|Alpha Appliance Get Wolfram|Alpha within your organization's pri- vate network. Wolfram|Alpha Widgets Instantly add computational knowledge to your blog or website. Get a widget from the gallery or create your own. Wolfram|Alpha in Mathematica Programmatic access to Wolfram|Alpha, integrat- ed into your computational workflow. Wolfram|Alpha Technology Products webMathematica Add dynamic, interactive calculations and visualizations to your website, and get automatic, customized results for every input. gridMathematica Extend Mathematica's built-in parallelization capabilities, and run more tasks in parallel over more CPUs with faster execution. Wolfram Workbench Utilize sophisticated code editing, navigation, and project management tools for enterprise-class development and deployment. Wolfram CDF Player Drive interactive content and generate results live with the free CDF Player, featuring a browser plugin for Mathematica notebooks and Computable Document Format (.cdf) documents. Mathematica Add-Ons Extend Mathematica's functionality through Mathematica Applications, which are available for many specific functions. Wolfram|Mathematica Products Research Experience for Teachers – National Science Foundation Product Information and Images obtained from Wolfram Research: Mathematica, Technical and Scientific Software. http://www.wolfram.com/ Characteristics of a Successful Learning Environment Image Source: Five Minds for the Future. Posted October 15,2006. Retrieved July 14,2011. http://isaiahlim.wordpress.com/2006/10/ 5 Minds for the Future By Howard Gardner Image Source :The Parrtnership for 21 st Century Skills http://www.p21.org/images/stories/p21_rainbow_id254.jpg Partnership for 21 st Century Skills Wolfram|Alpha was launched to the public in May of 2009. It unveiled a new era in web searching by revealing to the user computational knowledge that has been currated by the Wolfram Research Company. The database has multiple datasets, both historical and current, that displays information to the end user. About Wolfram Research Group Developed for both students and educators, this education- al portal contains a collection of resources spanning all precollege grade levels, including dynamic classroom demonstrations from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. (Source: Wolfram Educational Portal http://www.wolfram.com/edu/) Factors Used to Determine A learning Environment Image from: Bloom’s Taxonomy – Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy_of_Educational_Objectives Bloom’s Taxonomy Theory of Multiple Intelligence By Howard Gardner Technology has permeated society in ways that were unimaginable even ten years ago. With the increase in both capacity and capabilities we are reaching times in which technology can truly enhance the learning environments by enabling the learners to stretch their mental capacities as they interact with the content. The intent of this project is to marry symbolic computation software with standard content of a physics course into an electronic learning environment. This permits the arrangements of animations and graphs in an interactive pictorial representation for the learner to master fundamental physics concepts, while also retaining the mathematical rigor that is expected in a traditional classroom. In conjunction with the framework of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Mathematica’s “Core Language” and the “Dynamic Interactivity” of the manipulate command allow construction of the learning environments suitable to an electronic text. In addition, Mathematica provides the delivery method of the learning experience with the “Notebook and Documents” feature that is embedded within the capabilities of the software. Furthermore, these electronic learning environments are aligned with the parameters that have been established by the Partnership for 21 st Century Skills and the Five Minds of the Future by Howard Gardner. With the use of Mathematica 8 software, the learners are now capable to interact with the content in an electronic environment and at an elevated level, which allows them to synthesize information in ways that are more compelling than without the software. This is a contribution site that contains demonstrations that use interactive visualization to explain a concept so a user can better understand. (Source: Wolfram Demonstration Project http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/) July 2011
