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Demetri Orlando

Prof. Dev. Wiki of Videos - 0 views

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shared by Demetri Orlando on 29 Oct 08 - No Cached
  • Demetri Orlando on 29 Oct 08
     
    On this wikispace, a school in Florida is posting P.D. videos for elementary school teachers. (thank kim cofino for tweeting the link)
Demetri Orlando

Playing to Learn - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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elementary play

shared by Demetri Orlando on 03 Feb 10 - Cached
  • So what should children be able to do by age 12, or the time they leave elementary school? They should be able to read a chapter book, write a story and a compelling essay; know how to add, subtract, divide and multiply numbers; detect patterns in complex phenomena; use evidence to support an opinion; be part of a group of people who are not their family; and engage in an exchange of ideas in conversation.
Sarah Hanawald

Diablo Valley School, a Concord California Sudbury School - Serving Elementary Middle a... - 0 views

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education independent teaching

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 03 May 08 - Cached
  • I heard a vice-president of IBM tell an audience of people assembled to redesign the process of teacher certification that in his opinion this country became computer-literate by self-teaching, not through any action of schools. He said 45 million people were comfortable with computers who had learned through dozens of non-systematic strategies, none of them very formal; if schools had pre-empted the right to teach computer use we would be in a horrible mess right now instead of leading the world in this literacy.
  • In modern society, said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations--not by their own individual accomplishments. It such a world people who read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they don't know by themselves, without consulting experts
  • Dewey said the great mistake of traditional pedagogy was to make reading and writing constitute the bulk of early schoolwork.
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  • New York State, for instance, employs more school administrators than all of the European Economic Community nations combined.
  • rederich Froebel, the inventor of kindergarten in 19th century Germany, fashioned his idea he did not have a "garden for children" in mind, but a metaphor of teachers as gardeners and children as the vegetables.
  • Kindergarten was created to be a way to break the influence of mothers on their children.
  • Violence, narcotic addictions, divorce, alcoholism, loneliness...all these are but tangible measures of a poverty in education.
  • Sarah Hanawald on 03 May 08
     
    Interesting. John Taylor Gotto on education and the value of less rather than more school. He mentions that the best programmers are self-taught.
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