Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate MathematicsBoston, Massachusetts, March 21-24, 2013Paper S097
The ICTCM: Teaching Portal to the 21st Century |
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ABSTRACT
The ICTCM is one large, supersized learning community. It is a meeting place where people from all types of campuses come to show what they've been doing in classroom technology and to learn what others are doing. It is not one of those meetings where a few superstars come to tell us what to do and how to do it. It is a close to an egalitarian society as we've experienced. The conference is friendly, is accepting of others' ideas, and is helpful to those just there to see what is happening. Why is this? Possibly, for the many years of this conference, at least the first twenty, where attendees were mostly alone at their institutions, each feeling a commitment to do more in the classroom, each with the belief that technology could help, each needing the support of their colleagues, and each wanting to perfect what they are doing. Indeed, it was with this in mind that Bert Waits and Frank Demana originally created this wonderful community more than a generation ago.Keyword(s): pedagogy