Why Learning Should Be Messy | MindShift - 2 views
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kathleen johnson on 26 Oct 12They have always been interconnected. We just could not see it until we had the internet.
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“If you were to hike the Appalachian trail, which would take you months and months, and you reflect upon it, you do not divide the experience into the historic, scientific, mathematic, and English aspects of it. You would look at it holistically.”
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Diana Laufenberg, former teacher at the Science Leadership Academy, described to me, “The role of inquiry is the starting point of learning.
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School-based education has always been about telling and getting of information, rather than exploring or investigating
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the pedagogical unit of Brightworks is the arc, which is divided into three phrases.” Each arc, he says, has a central theme.
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David Kelley, whose mission is to transmit “empathy” into his students to encourage them to see the human side of the challenges
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The school concentrates on four areas: the developing world, sustainability, health and wellness, and K-12 educatio
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“Suppose you and I decided to build a boat. Our hypothesis might be: we can build a boat under $30 using recycled materials and sail it across the Hudson River. Our teacher or mentor can help us shape that to ensure that the challenge meets our cognitive and intellectual development
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At the Brightworks School, students will leave with an iPad, filled with all the projects they completed in their term
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The role of the teacher in project-based learning as Laufenberg likes to say is an “architect of opportunity.