Miss Morgan Karmin-Daly

 Here is the link to my YouTube video of my summary of learning in ECS 203.  https://youtu.be/7OlnoHcipHY ECS 203 Summary of Learning Thanks for listening! Morgan

Part 1(Numeracy): While watching Gale's lecture, we learn that Inuit mathematics and Eurocentric mathematics are learnt in different ways. An example she states is that Inuit mathematics challenges Eurocentric ideas about the purpose of mathematics and the way we learn it, that the Indigenous worldview focuses more on relationships and is connected with spiritual, emotional, physical, and intellectual. In contrast, the European worldview is linear, static, and singular. In Poirier's article, he states that the Inuits have a different teaching method. Traditional Inuit teaching is by listening to an elder or enigmas, which help as clues to solve problems in math. The teachers do not ask questions that a student cannot answer. They learn orally rather than through the European worldview, which is written form. A third-way Inuit mathematics challenges Eurocentric ways is stated in Bear's article. He says in the Inuit worldview, all ideas are connected in a circle of kinship an...

 In this weeks blog post I will be responding to an email about Treaty Education. I will also be discussing the purpose of teaching Treaty Education, and my understanding of curriculum that "We are all treaty people." I will post the email I am responding to first. During fall semester several years ago, Dr. Mike Cappello received an email from an intern asking for help. Here's part of it: “As part of my classes for my three week block I have picked up a Social Studies 30 course. This past week we have been discussing the concept of standard of living and looking at the different standards across Canada . I tried to introduce this concept from the perspective of the First Nations people of Canada and my class was very confused about the topic and in many cases made some racist remarks. I have tried to reintroduce the concept but they continue to treat it as a joke. The teachers at this school are very lax on the topic of Treaty Education as well as First Nations ways of k...