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Implementing the Project Approach in an Inclusive Classroom: A Teacher's First Attempt ... - 0 views

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  • I wanted the children in my classroom to be motivated, authentically engaged, and excited to learn. I wanted them to take hold of their learning and drive their own experiences. The children were learning; still, I felt that their experiences should be more personal than I had been able to provide using a teacher-derived curriculum. I thought this could be best accomplished in an open-ended environment where children are free to explore and follow their interests.
  • John Dewey was among the first to suggest that an ideal way for children to learn is by planning their own activities and implementing those plans, thereby providing opportunities for multilevel instruction, cooperative learning, peer support, and individualized learning
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Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let's ban elementary homework - S... - 1 views

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  • If the assignment does not promote greater love of school and interest in learning, then it has no place in an elementary school-aged child’s day.
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Homework vs. No Homework Is the Wrong Question | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Ideally, we want children to understand that they are always learners. In school, we refer to them as "students" but outside of school, as children, they are still learners. So it makes no sense to even advertise a "no homework" policy in a school. It sends the wrong message. The policy should be, "No time-wasting, rote, repetitive tasks will be assigned that lack clear instructional or learning purposes."
  • Bo Adams on 04 Apr 15
     
    HT @eijunkie
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Discussion on student inquiry with John Larmer from Buck Institute. - 1 views

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  • Bo Adams on 04 Feb 15
     
    Good discussion into which to listen "fishbowl" style. A teacher team talks with John Larmer from BIE about PBL.
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How Dissecting a Pencil Can Ignite Curiosity and Wonderment | MindShift - 2 views

blogs.kqed.org/...gnite-curiosity-and-wonderment designthinking design thinking design_thinking Maker makered visiblethinking VTR #MustRead agency #CohortRead
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  • Bo Adams on 11 Dec 14
     
    Very powerful read about how VTR and design thinking can empower learners as agents of change. HT @Deacs84
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American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn't Exist | WIRED - 0 views

www.wired.com/...on-learning-by-doing School Change #MustRead discovery PBL school3.0
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  • We “learn,” and after this we “do.” We go to school and then we go to work. This approach does not map very well to personal and professional success in America today. Learning and doing have become inseparable in the face of conditions that invite us to discover.
  • In such conditions the futures of law, medicine, philosophy, engineering, and agriculture – with just about every other field – are to be rediscovered.
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      Bo Adams on 18 Oct 14
       
      In this paragraph there are so many "project starters" that one could design an entire "curriculum" to weave them into an advanced problem solving component to school!
  • Americans need to learn how to discover.
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  • Against this arresting background, an exciting new kind of learning is taking place in America. Alternatively framed as maker classes, after-school innovation programs, and innovation prizes, these programs are frequently not framed as learning at all.
  • Failing to create a new way of learning adapted to contemporary circumstances might be a national disaster.
  • Discovery has always provoked interest, but how one discovers may today interest us even more.
  • in the course I teach, How to Create Things and Have Them Matter, students are asked to look, listen, and discover, using their own creative genius, while observing contemporary phenomena that matter today.
  • Learning by an original and personal process of discovery is a trend on many US university campuses
  • Success brings not just a good grade, or the financial reward of a prize. It brings the satisfaction that one can realize dreams, and thrive, in a world framed by major dramatic questions. And this fans the kind of passion that propels an innovator along a long creative career.
  • Culture labs conduct or invite experiments in art and design to explore contemporary questions that seem hard or even impossible to address in more conventional science and engineering labs.
  • The culture lab is the latest indication that learning is changing in America. It cannot happen too fast.
  • we need to get smarter in ways that match the challenges we now face.
  • Bo Adams on 18 Oct 14
     
    "Our kids learn within a system of education devised for a world that increasingly does not exist." HT @MeghanCureton & Greg Todd Jones (two colleagues in significantly different worlds who sent me the link at exactly the same time.)
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Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

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  • Bo Adams on 19 Sep 14
     
    Amazing talk about the power of story.
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http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/fall2013/Dunlosky.pdf - 0 views

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  • Bo Adams on 03 May 14
     
    HT @TNSatlanta
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The Maker Movement Conquers the Classroom -- THE Journal - 2 views

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  • "When kids and teachers are given an opportunity to make, to create," Moran said, "all of a sudden you see people becoming passionate about who they are as learners."
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The One Room Schoolhouse Goes High Tech | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Bo Adams on 19 Apr 14
     
    Important new pilot @altschool of differentiated learning? via @Kschwart http://t.co/S5nS0yLmAx @Design39Campus @boadams1 HT @grantlichtman
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Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning | Video on TED.com - 3 views

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  • Bo Adams on 16 Apr 14
     
    HT @jgough
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Playful learning: Where a rich curriculum meets a playful pedagogy | Preschool Matters.... - 1 views

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  • Playful learning is a whole-child approach to education that includes both free play and guided play.
  • It refers to play in a structured environment around a general curricular goal that is designed to stimulate children’s natural curiosity, exploration, and play with learning-oriented materials.[xxii]  In guided play, learning remains child-directed. This is a key point.  Children learn targeted information through exploration of a well-designed and structured environment (e.g. Montessori[xxiii]) and through the support of adults who ask open-ended questions to gently guide the child’s exploration.
  • Guided play allows children to become engaged; didactic instruction helps them memorize but not transfer what they have learned.
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  • Guided play helps constrain what children should be focusing on; free play leaves the field too open and does not help children focus on the target outcomes.
  • It is possible to have a curriculum rich in learning goals that is delivered in a playful pedagogy.
  • Bo Adams on 16 Mar 14
     
    "The Capulets and Montagues of early childhood have long battled over their vision for a perfect preschool education.  Should young children be immersed in a core curriculum replete with numbers and letters or in a playful context that stimulates creative discovery?  The 'preschool war' leaves educators torn and embattled politicians in deadlock.  Playful learning offers one way to reframe the debate by nesting a rich core curriculum within a playful pedagogy." HT @kellyBKelly2001
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