New Models for Education: Maker Faire and the Young Makers Program
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This district has popped up on my radar before. They have a great website for their students and parents. The math section of the website has great resources (www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/virtualmedia). They've got their act together!
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Maker Faire also captures something about the potential for a new direction in education
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our optimism for making as a way to learn
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Brain Calisthenics Help Break Down Abstract Ideas, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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For years school curriculums have emphasized top-down instruction, especially for topics like math and science. Learn the rules first — the theorems, the order of operations, Newton’s laws — then make a run at the problem list at the end of the chapter. Yet recent research has found that true experts have something at least as valuable as a mastery of the rules: gut instinct, an instantaneous grasp of the type of problem they’re up against. Like the ballplayer who can “read” pitches early, or the chess master who “sees” the best move, they’ve developed a great eye.
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Now, a small group of cognitive scientists is arguing that schools and students could take far more advantage of this same bottom-up ability, called perceptual learning
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