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Water Balloons Make Math Fun: A Constructivist Algebra Lesson
Posted February 9th, 2009 by carrieannIn the math class of veteran teacher Steve Norton, students cut pizza into precise triangles, calculate the volume of ice cream cones (filling them with real ice cream), and throw water balloons at their teacher. Norton wants to show his grade 8 students that algebra can be fun and engage them in ‘learning through doing’. It’s a constructionist approach that engages students in the learning experience, in part, by allowing them to actually construct or do something ‘real’.
Getting Kids Out of the Classroom
Posted September 25th, 2008 by carrieannRather than keep her students behind desks all day, intermediate teacher Sharon MacKenzie gets her students out of the school more than half of the time.
Education includes schooling, but it is by no means restricted to it-John Dewey
Posted March 27th, 2008 by carrieannEducation includes schooling, but it is by no means restricted to it
The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries about the Teenage Brain Tell Us about Our Kids
For anyone who has ever puzzled over the mysterious and often infuriating behavior of a teenager comes a groundbreaking look at the teenage brain written by the medical science and health editor for The New York Times.
cognitive apprenticeship
Learn about how cognitive apprenticeship works with the natural predispositions of the adolescent brain.
If we want our children to become responsible life-Terence Ryan
Posted February 18th, 2008 by carrieannIf we want our children to become responsible life-long learners then we need to be as concerned about their time outside the classroom as we are about their time in it.
Those neurological changes in the young brain as i-John Abbott
Posted February 18th, 2008 by carrieannThose neurological changes in the young brain as it transforms itself mean that adolescents have evolved to be apprentice-like learners, not pupils sitting at desks and waiting instruction. Youngsters who are empowered as adolescents to take charge of their own futures will make better citizens for the future.
Making Life Part of the Curriculum
Posted February 11th, 2008 by carrieannHow does a 19th Century Maori war chant figure into the college aspirations of a bunch of student athletes in El Segundo? Just another means of preparing students — not just for college, but for life.
The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen
This groundbreaking book argues that adolescence is an unnecessary period of life that people are better off without.
The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School
The Unprocessed Child is a work of nonfiction about a child raised with no coercion and no curriculum. Having never seen a textbook or taken a test, Laurie scored in the top 10% of the state of Louisiana on her college entrance exam.
