Liberal Arts Math writing and research component uploaded to the Internet at Google Knol for peer review and evaluation. Significant increase in academic quality!
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Using Technology for Peer Review
1. GOOGLE KNOL
Using Technology and
Peer-Review for
Teaching and Learning Mathematics
Fred Feldon, Coastline CC
November 11, 2011 # T3A
2. “Mathematics is not a careful march
down a well-cleared highway, but a
journey into a strange
wilderness, where the explorers often
get lost.”
-- W. S. Anglin, author of Mathematics: A
Concise History and Philosophy, 1994
3. • “Peer review raises academic standards in the classroom.” Carol
Boston, ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation, University of
Maryland, College Park, 2002
• “When students are asked to write for one another, they write
more effectively.” Richard Light, Harvard University, 2003
• “Peer review ensures that the material is correct, as well as
relevant, original and well written for the readers.” Ellen Yi-Luen
Do, Department of Architecture, University of Washington, 2004
• “Peer review ensures the quality of papers that are
published, sets scientific standards of the discipline and subtler
standards of collegiality, behavior and ethics.” Ethics of Peer Review: A
Guide for Manuscript Reviewers, Sara Rockwell, Ph.D., Yale University School of
Medicine, 2005
• “Collaborative peer review is well suited as a formative
evaluation.” Larry Keig and Michael Waggoner, Truman State University, The
Center for Teaching and Learning, 1994
4. • “Sharing student course work is an example of „social
pedagogies‟ defined as engaging students with an authentic
audience--which could be other students.” Derek Bruff, Director of the
Center for Learning and a senior lecturer in mathematics at Vanderbuilt
Univerity, “The Chronicle of Higher Education November 9, 2011.
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Social-Network-Can-Be-a/129609/
7. • User-written articles
• Compares to Wikipedia, Citizendium,
and Scholarpedia but
• Stresses personal expertise and
authorship like Squidoo, HubPages
and Helium
8. • Opened to the public in 2008
• Google account required
• No policy regarding source or neutrality
• Each article may be rated and commented
on
• Search by author or topic or key words
9. As of October, 2011, Google Knol achieved:
• Top 1000 web platforms (#831)
• 6.5 million unique visitors per month
• 600,000 papers have been published
• By 35,000 authors
13. Shaina Cohen‟s Knol at
http://knol.google.com/k/s-cohen/hunting-the-hidden-dimension/199fiq859tnn3/1
She incorporates knitting AND linguistics into mathematics and fractals!
Elisa Swift‟s Knol at
http://knol.google.com/k/elisa-swift/my-report-on-seven-symbols-out-of-
sixty/gg9kjjysusqw/1. Quote, “I want to enroll in more math classes!”
Erica Segovia‟s Knol at http://knol.google.com/k/erica-segovia/hunting-the-hidden-
dimensions/3d8ad20v066le/1 her 8-year old son who loves math watched it with
her.
Derrick Davenport Summer 2011 http://knol.google.com/k/derrick-davenport/sixty-
symbols/1b2d64iuxdce4/1 included the latest video on Guinness beer foam
composed of tetraki tetrahedra!
Tiffany Smith has a 3D working Hypercube AND the Kool-Aid Man. It doesn‟t get
any better than that! http://knol.google.com/k/tiffany-smith/l1f3-8y-
num83r5/366vc1tqacwkn/2
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23. Thank You
ffeldon@coastline.edu
This presentation is available to download at
http://www.slideshare.net/ffeldon/using-technology-
for-peer-review