who had led the earlier parts of the workshop. But I still learned a lot and got to make cool things happen using, say, theTwitter API, and that was very neat. As designed, the workshop led me through small, basic exercises first (the equivalent of finger exercises in piano), then ...
Children are invited to make and create in the art center during morning arrival, our Readers and Writers Playshop time and Choice Time throughout the day. I introduce artists and their works throughout the year. Andy Goldsworthy, Alma Thomas, Howardena Pindell, Wassily Kandinsky, Picasso, Mo...
on, and through learning, I find myself saying “create space for reflection”, but perhaps I should add, “create space for (self-)discovery.” I think this is good advice for the artist and the educator
math. “Caught up” is the wrong phrase. It’s not like he was not learning math through his play from ages 1 to 13. He was learning number theory, but not from a book, or lectures, but from his own observations through play and projects. In one year, he caught up on learning ...
Mentors have a pivotal role to play in education. Whether you are enrolled in a pre-service teacher program, working as an intern in a school, new to teaching or to a new school, you often have amentorto help guide you through any transitions along the way. Most of the time the “me...
Through iterative and conceptual theme development, three main higher-order themes were identified in the data: agency, privacy and autonomy. This section discusses these three themes, illustrated by relevant quotes from the interview data. The participants are referred to as T1-16 for the teachers...
The analysis consisted of first reading and writing relatively detailed summaries of each thesis, with page references to key findings and quotes. In the next readthrough, the notes were used as support to analyse the theses in greater depth. The analysis was to a fairly large extent structured...
When we moved to distance learning in March, I wanted to be sure that the opportunities I was providing for synchronous and asynchronous learning were filled with play. We know that children learn through play, and I didn’t want that to change with the switch to distance learning. Our ...
When we moved to distance learning in March, I wanted to be sure that the opportunities I was providing for synchronous and asynchronous learning were filled with play. We know that children learn through play, and I didn’t want that to change with the switch to distance learning. Our ...
If, as we contend, a learning culture should be understood as the social practice through which people learn, then a key task for a cultural approach to learning is to understand how particular practices impact upon the learning of the participants. To answer this question we need an understand...