<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br></div>There is so much dialog, all high quality, on the idc list, but it would be nice to follow one topic and as new topics arise, to select which ones to read and receive. This would introduce twitter like technology I defined in 1999:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/pprueitt/forms.htm">http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/pprueitt/forms.htm</a><br><div><br></div><div>and in the year 2000</div><div><br></div><div>http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/pprueitt/private/SuggestiveReasoning.htm</div><div><br></div><div>I sense that twitter is now interfacing with email forums?<br><div><br></div><div><br><div>A twitter list is defined (by me):</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><!--StartFragment--> <h1><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Life is a tweet</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tweets are little bits of text.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>However, if one creates a framework requiring also that the tweets be structured in standard ways, one can tweet knowledge constructions such as concepts in pure mathematics, equations, simulations such as Second Life, or updates to Twitter files.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Math tweets may then be used to teach set theory, probability, statistics, arithmetic in arbitrary bases, college algebra, theory of functions and the calculus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This core is the minimal core one would expect of a college degreed person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Math tweets link topics from many disciplines to any set of topics that an individual wishes to add or subtract from lists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There are three kinds of lists; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A) Topics an individual knows and is comfortable with, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">B) Topics that are not known or which an individual is uncomfortable with, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">C) Topics that are not known about by the individual. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">More on topic mapping methodology is provided in the technical appendix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The point here is that these lists are to be managed in what is essentially a private knowledge operating system, one that like tweets is sharable with friends. The operating system is sharable as well as content that may be traded within an intellectual marketplace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>No software costs are to be seen by individual or community participants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>This innovation is consistent with a demand side theory of learning, and consistent with my attempts to apply in theory and practice this theory of learning to the ongoing and intractable crisis in mathematics education, a crisis that affects everyone but disproportionately affects under-served communities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div></div></div></div></body></html>