Education News: Projects or Facts?
posted by Karen Cole @ 5:24 PM
Thursday, May 18, 2006
About Me
- Name: Karen Cole
- Location: United States
After many years of working as an educational researcher and curriculum developer, I now specialize in helping parents create a learning-friendly household. Find out more about by background on my web site.
Previous Posts
- Game: Run a lemonade stand
- Web site: Polar Days and Nights
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- Activity: Go Stargazing
- Book Review: Attack of the Killer Video Book
- Ed News: New PE classes
- Kinetic Sculpture Race
- What kind of billion do you mean
- Count your birds
- Kidszworld's Get Physical
2 Comments:
That quote from Karen Budd shows why mathematicians should never use economics analogies to explain education.
OF COURSE, both facts and connections to the world are important parts of learning! Anyone who has ever learned anything should know that directly. It's just translating it to school that is the problem.
I bet your workshops, Karen, give parents the experience of learning important content in the context of a real-world project. So do you preach about it at the end? Maybe it would be a good idea. :)
That quote from Karen Budd shows why mathematicians should never use economics analogies to explain education.
OF COURSE, both facts and connections to the world are important parts of learning! Anyone who has ever learned anything should know that directly. It's just translating it to school that is the problem.
I bet your workshops, Karen, give parents the experience of learning important content in the context of a real-world project. So do you preach about it at the end? Maybe it would be a good idea. :)
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