Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Dewey on 'Pragmatism'
Ruminating: why am I so often declared to be a proponent of pragmatism these days? Is there a way to escape such a reductive interpretation of my writing? Then I sit back and think, why complain about a label when people are always constructing their own meaning for the word pragmatism itself? I can only look back upon the history of the word pragmatism and how it has been used now to understand what and how it has come to be that it is still used to designate a collection of practices. These practices then implicate others in specific ways of relating to the word, the practices, to each other, in ways NONE of us would ever have imagined! Oh my, I am lost for "words"!
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
Friday, April 10, 2015
Monday, April 6, 2015
Friday, April 3, 2015
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Friday, March 20, 2015
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
HABITS OF MIND
Arthur Costa defines "Habits of Mind"
Deb Meier's "5 Habits of Mind"
Deborah Meier (an educational reformer, writer, and activist) believes that schools should teach students a specific set of skills in order to be highly effective. The skills, also known as ‘habits of mind,’ include:
Significance (why it is important)
Perspective (what is the point of view)
Evidence (how do you know)
Connection (how does it apply)
Supposition (what if it were different
Deb Meier's "5 Habits of Mind"
Deborah Meier (an educational reformer, writer, and activist) believes that schools should teach students a specific set of skills in order to be highly effective. The skills, also known as ‘habits of mind,’ include:
Significance (why it is important)
Perspective (what is the point of view)
Evidence (how do you know)
Connection (how does it apply)
Supposition (what if it were different
Thursday, March 5, 2015
'YOU CANNOT HEAR JIMMY...'
Multiple perspectives.
Is "hear" a metaphor
Or, I (we) hear Jimmy differently?
Research question: Who REALLY hears Jimmy?
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Sunday, January 18, 2015
NOAM CHOMSKY ON STANDARDIZED TESTING
“The assessment itself is completely artificial," Chomsky asserts. "It’s not ranking teachers in accordance with their ability to help develop children who will reach their potential . . . It’s turning us into individuals who devote our lives to achieving a rank."
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
How children learn (Experience and Education)
In an experience, interaction occurs between an individual, objects, and other people. The experience becomes what it is because of this transaction between an individual and what constitutes his or her environment. The environment consists of whatever conditions (objects or people) interact with an individual’s internal personal needs, desires, capacities, and purposes that create the resulting experience (Dewey, 1938, pp. 43-44).
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