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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