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Jul14
Jun18
Great graphic, although unofficially, there are more ways to blend learning. As many ways as there are to blend teaching.
Jun7
‘It is a happy talent to know how to play.’ ~Ralph Waldo Emerson→
Lesson planning and implementation is more fun this way as well.
May22
OTTAWA — There are no computers at the Ottawa Waldorf School. No iPads, interactive whiteboards or flat-screen televisions either. Headphone wires don’t dangle from ears and pockets aren’t stuffed with smartphones. Students here don’t even have calculators.
The only apples and blackberries used at this small private school are baked into pies that are cut into pieces as part of a lesson on fractions.
As public schools race to equip classrooms with the latest in technological gadgetry, teachers of the century-old Waldorf model take a different approach. Here, technology is seen as a distraction — something that gets in the way of creativity and saps attention spans. The focus here is on human interaction and on equipping students with analytical and imaginative skills by using basic tools, such as pencils, pens and knitting needles. (via Teaching without distraction (with video))
May13
Ms. Leah, HBIC: The Hundred Languages of Childhood→
The child
is made of one hundred.
The child has
A hundred languages
A hundred hands
A hundred thoughts
A hundred ways of thinking
Of playing, of speaking.
A hundred always a hundred
Ways of listening of marveling of loving
A hundred joys
For singing and understanding
A hundred worlds
To…
Jan24
With only a handful students, going for divergent thinking in the classroom is easy. I don’t know how it’s done in big classrooms.
I don’t know if anyone else does it in the Philippines.
