About

by John Rozean

 

Update

I've recently completed work on the "Curse of Knowledge," and idea that is buttressed by Christopher Reddy's edutopia.org article "The Teacher Curse No One Wants to Talk About" . I applied his suggestions for "lifting the curse" to the "Texas mathematical curriculums 19 TAC Chapter 111", "Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Mathematics Subchapter A", and "Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Mathematics Subchapter B."

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I have identified within those curriculums what I refer to as a "curse gap," evidenced quantitatively through key word searches and categorically through TEKS paragraph analysis.

​ It is focused on applying Reddy's 7 strategies to combat the curse as applied to the concepts of the logarithmic and exponential functions. In addition to Reddy's strategies, I've had added cross-curricular concepts largely related to the 1994 book, "e: The Story of a Number," (Amazon.com),(googreads.com) where Maor proposes that math curriculums should include more math history.

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This site

My original idea was to research and present a website as a way to present a website that includes content helpful to math teachers allowing them to post information concerning a compare/contrast between traditional methods verses emerging ideas. Website visitors are able to collaborate through a Wiki and the contact the curator subpages. So far I have not had any response to my Wiki.

 

The website is simple and is focused on providing valid, insightful content that supports the idea of challenging traditional math teaching methods by providing new research and methods that work better.

 

The webpage’s topic is threefold in its purposes. First to mention is collaborative software has its origins in the ideas of Douglas Engelbart in 1967 that eventually led to ARPANET (Biography.com Editors, 2016) and also the work of Will Crowther whose work centered on collaborative gaming in 1975 (Lowood, 2015). The second, is the ideas of emerging teaching methods through collaboration in the class room. The third, is to encourage the use of more collaboration in teacher performance and evaluation. Collaboration in education can be traced back ancient Greece and India. These ideas were brought to the Western World my several researchers including John Dewy, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky (Banerje, 2012).

 

The website was put together as a proponent of new technologies and teaching methods to improve our dwindling, broken education system that is in need of reform, in my opinion.

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References

 

Biography.com Editors (2016) . Douglas C. Engelbart Biography. Retrievd April 24, 2016 from www.biography.com/people/douglas-c-engelbart-9287574

Lowood, Henry E. (2015) . Electric game . April 3, 2015 . retrieved from www.britannica.com/topic/electronic-game#ref79268

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Banerjee, R (2012) . The origins of collaborative learning . March 2, 2012 retrieved from www.brighthubeducation.com/teaching-methods-tips/69716-origins-and-brief-history-of-collaborative-learning-theries/

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