Resumen de Creating a Virtual Community of Practice for PreService Teachers: The Virtual Fieldwork Sequence (VFS) Project at the Math Forum
This paper reports on a project at the Math Forum where an online course module is used to create a virtual portal between the Math Forum and several schools of education. The project draws upon educational theory, which suggests that to produce ideas is to engage in a dialogic process with other and specifically to produce mathematical ideas one must engage in mathematical practice. Using ethnographic methods the paper discusses the evaluation of this effort to create a virtual “portal” between two cultures. The paper has implications for ways the internet could be used in other educational situations where one is attempting to bridge distinct cultures and where those cultures are geographically separated from one another.
