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Liminal
At the end, on the last page of A Poem As Long As The Highway by Douglas Barbour there is a set of lines that mark the ongoing nature of the poem as an act of cognition (learning). Set off-centre … Continue reading
Set and Setting: Cognitive Cogitations
A few generalizations… 5.32 Pedagogical situations are sensory. They are also interpersonal. Because they are sensory this makes even learning by oneself interpersonal. Egocentric speech is like a dialogue between the senses. In Vygotsky’s and Luria’s experiments, children placed in … Continue reading
Play: Wonder, Delight, Choice
Like being open to randomness… Indeed, bringing play into a central role in a school entails creating a culture that values the core tenets of play: taking risks, making mistakes, exploring new ideas, and experiencing joy. […] what is emerging … Continue reading
Four Skills
Remarks to Humanist stemming from a course about online learning http://dhhumanist.org/Archives/Virginia/v13/0246.html Namely a “translation” of the four literacy skills [reading, writing, speaking, listening] into four multimedia skills (i.e. more than applicable to verbal arts). I’ve manage to rename them thus: … Continue reading
Connections, directions, corrections
Some one sent me a link to “The career advice I wish I had at 25” by Shane Rodgers. It seems to populate many management sites all over the World Wide Web. This is the one item on the list … Continue reading
Documentation, Discussion, Doing
We begin with the material fluency and move to interpersonal collaboration for the pursuit of projects… Beyond working in small groups, a key feature of Reggio schools – and prime example of Multiple Intelligences (Gardner, 1983) – is the emphasis … Continue reading
Orchestrating Closure
April 24, 2003. Excerpt from online chat re paper Of Drugs, Messages and Time Pia: Our Staff Development program offered a workshop for the faculty on How to Say Hello and Goodbye in the semester. CaroleM: A debrief can enable … Continue reading
Smooth Striations
Almost like a reminder of the room as time-machine in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency [and for this reader: the metaphor of the book in hand as time-machine], the potential of language as a transportation device is referenced by Marie-Laure … Continue reading
Salty Passions
Peter Kline in The Everyday Genius makes a useful observation about how theory cleaves to practice. Theory often meditates between two practices or two aspects of a multi-player activity. Kline is concerned with the connection between thinking about learning and … Continue reading
Connecting
Involved. Attached. Applied. Engagement is a construct involving three dimensions: behavioural (involvement); affective (personal attachment to others, such as teachers and classmates); and cognitive (application to learning). Engagement is critical because it makes a difference to academic achievement and fosters … Continue reading