Re: education, technology & chat (The Mathematics of it)

[Peter Moxhay <moxhap@portlandschools.org>]

> Clarification, please, for a phrase I think I don't understand: "in a
> chat-like way."

I guess I used a deliberately sloppy phrase to leave the interpretation 
open...

Even though Davydov's approach may not appeal to all, his work did have 
a clear emphasis
on the need to transform the *content* of instruction as well as the 
form. In his case,
it was the ascent from the abstract to the concrete as a principle for 
organizing the content.
Others on the list (the topic was "education,  technology & CHAT) no 
doubt have other
approaches to curriculum content.

I'd just be interested to hear from others working on technology & 
education & chat
what their approach to the content is. Does one just grab at a specific 
topic in
math, say "polygons," and create software around this topic that enables
good peer interaction, for example? Or does one's interest and 
knowledge of chat
guide, in some way or other (not necessarily Davydov's!) the choice of 
the
math (or other) content of the software?

Peter