Archive for April, 2009

Objects and Learning

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

They keep coming back, whereever I turn, whatever I read, whatever I see or touch - objects, things, inventions, manifestations…physical things created by other people. As tools, objects can be desribed as containing a part of culture, of having embedded knowledge, a power to teach just because they exist and fit the hand or please [...]

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After the Testing

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

I love being in the presence of learning phenomena; moments spring
up like sudden fountains or flashes of light. Happens all the time in
the classroom. Perspective is everything. Imagine this scene. Kids have
been toiling for the last couple of weeks on standardized testing - and
I have the unenviable position of being the dreaded administrator.
Where has our [...]

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